I love, I love my shadow,

我愛，我愛我的影子

this parrot, I love to eat

是一隻鸚鵡，我愛吃

what it loves to eat, I love to give you what I have not

它愛吃的，我愛給你我沒有的

I love to ask if you still love me

我愛問：你還愛我嗎

I love your auricle, it loves to hear: I love adventure

我愛你的耳廓，它愛聽：我愛冒險

I love the beloved house inviting us to lie down, become its roof

我愛動情的房屋邀我們躺下做它的頂

I love to lie on my side, straightening my shadow,

我愛側臥，為一條直線留下投影

my plump body a string of small villages

為一個豐滿的身體留下一串小村莊

I want that mole close to your lip

我要讓你離你的唇最近的那顆痣

to understand, this is my promise

知道，這就是我的諾言

I love that the wisdom of my dreams is packed with a bridegroom’s ambitions

我愛我夢中的智力是個滿懷野心的新郎

I love eating raw meat, gazing straight at hell

我愛吃生肉，直視地獄

but I still love to play the violin in your breast

但我還是愛在你懷裏偷偷拉動小提琴

I love to turn the lights off early, waiting

我愛早早熄滅燈，等待

for your body to make this room glow

你的身體再次照亮這房間

I love when I’m asleep, my pillow all plums

我愛我睡去時，枕上全是李子

when I wake, all back on their branches

醒來時，李子回到枝頭

I love that through the whole night the foredeck lures sea waves

我愛整夜波濤吸引前甲板

I love to shout: you’ll come back

我愛喊：你會歸來

I love to disturb harbors, twist words

我愛如此折磨港口，折磨詞語

I love restraining myself at the desk

我愛在桌前控制自己

I love sliding my hand into the ocean

我愛把手插入大海

I love spreading all five fingers at once

我愛我的五指同時張開

clinging to the edge of a wheatfield

緊緊抓住麥田的邊緣

I love that my five fingers are still your lovers

我愛我的五指仍是你的五個男友

I love memory as a kind of life, small

我愛回憶是一種生活，少

but more than a woman misses

但比一個女人向我走來時

when she walks toward me, like thirty years ago

漏掉的還要多，就像三十年前

on a street at sunset, a young woman with an instrument case

夕光中，街道上，背著琴匣的姑娘

smiling at me for no reason

仍在無端地向我微笑

I love most that we’re still a pair of torpedoes

我就更愛我們仍是一對魚雷

waiting for someone to launch

等待誰把我們再次發射出去

I love to meet you in the depths, you

我愛在大海深處與你匯合，你

who are mine, mine alone, I

是我的，只是我的，我

say this still, and sing my promise—

還是愛這麼說，這麼唱我的諾言——