小事物

It usually starts taking shape

通常从一个词

from one word

开始发展

reveals itself in one smile

在一次微笑里显现

sometimes in the blue glint of eyeglasses

有时在眼镜的蓝色闪光里

in a trampled daisy

在被踩踏的雏菊里

in a splash of light on a path

在小径上的光斑里

in quivering carrot leaves

在颤动的胡萝卜叶里

in a bunch of parsley

在一束欧芹里

It comes from laundry hung on a balcony

它来自阳台晾晒的衣物

from hands thrust into dough

来自浸入面团的手

It seeps through closed eyelids

它穿过紧闭的眼睑

as through the prison wall of things of objects

如穿过事、物、脸、风景

of faces of landscapes

组成的监狱之墙

It’s when you slice bread

它是在切面包之时

when you pour out some tea

在斟茶之时

It comes from a broom from a shopping bag

它来自刷子，来自购物网兜

from peeling new potatoes

来自新土豆削下的皮

from a drop of blood from the prick of a needle

来自被针刺出的血滴

when making panties for a child

在为孩子缝制小内裤

or sewing a button on a husband’s burial shirt

为丈夫的殓衣

It comes out of toil out of care

缝上纽扣之时

out of immense fatigue in the evening

它来自操劳的艰辛

our of a tear wiped away

来自巨大的夜间疲惫

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

来自擦开的眼泪

来自被睡意打断在半句话里的祈祷

It’s not from the grand

它并非来自宏大的

but from every tiny thing

而是来自每一件微小的事物

that it grows enormous

如此扩大

as if Someone was building Eternity

仿佛有谁如燕子筑巢

as a swallow its nest

用瞬间的泥块

out of clumps of moments

塑造永恒