It usually starts taking shape

小事物

from one word

通常从一个词

reveals itself in one smile

开始发展

sometimes in the blue glint of eyeglasses

在一次微笑里显现

in a trampled daisy

有时在眼镜的蓝色闪光里

in a splash of light on a path

在被踩踏的雏菊里

in quivering carrot leaves

在小径上的光斑里

in a bunch of parsley

在颤动的胡萝卜叶里

It comes from laundry hung on a balcony

在一束欧芹里

from hands thrust into dough

它来自阳台晾晒的衣物

It seeps through closed eyelids

来自浸入面团的手

as through the prison wall of things of objects

它穿过紧闭的眼睑

of faces of landscapes

如穿过事、物、脸、风景

It’s when you slice bread

组成的监狱之墙

when you pour out some tea

它是在切面包之时

It comes from a broom from a shopping bag

在斟茶之时

from peeling new potatoes

它来自刷子，来自购物网兜

from a drop of blood from the prick of a needle

来自新土豆削下的皮

when making panties for a child

来自被针刺出的血滴

or sewing a button on a husband’s burial shirt

在为孩子缝制小内裤

It comes out of toil out of care

为丈夫的殓衣

out of immense fatigue in the evening

缝上纽扣之时

our of a tear wiped away

它来自操劳的艰辛

out of a prayer broken off in mid-word by sleep

来自巨大的夜间疲惫

来自擦开的眼泪

It’s not from the grand

来自被睡意打断在半句话里的祈祷

but from every tiny thing

它并非来自宏大的

that it grows enormous

而是来自每一件微小的事物

as if Someone was building Eternity

如此扩大

as a swallow its nest

仿佛有谁如燕子筑巢

out of clumps of moments

用瞬间的泥块

塑造永恒