When I describe

當我描述

your absence,

你的缺席，

here you are

你便與我

with me

同在

on the white sheets

這白色的

of paper.

紙單上。

Last week 

上個星期

on real sheets

在床單上

I covered my ears against your talk of leaving—

我捂住雙耳拒絕

there was no such talk.

你關於離別的話語——

It is an old argument:

不曾有這樣的話。

這是一場古老的爭吵：

the tree falling

in the forest

樹倒於

with no one 

林間

to hear.

而無人

Now I am lost

傾聽。

in that forest.

此刻我迷失在

那片森林。