after Gauguin’s The Loss of Virginity

看高更畫作《失去童貞》

It is our eyes that lose

那失去清白的

their innocence, ravished by

是我們的眼睛，它們

these purples and greens as we gaze

被這些紫色和綠色洗劫，當我們凝視

at the woman lying there,

那個平躺的少女，

her ankles pressed together,

她的兩隻腳踝壓在一起，

like Holbein’s Christ.

好像霍爾拜因的基督。

She is perfectly immobile,

她純然靜止，

as if the fox signifying lust

彷彿那隻象征情欲的狐狸

were hardly there, nor the bird

根本不存在，那隻小鳥也沒有

settled on her open hand.

棲止在她松開的手上。

Even the procession that winds 

甚至那支向她緩緩吹來的

its slow way towards her

行進中的隊列

is simply a curve of darkness

也不過遠處一條

in the distance. In this realm

幽暗的曲線。在這純色的

of pure color it is the intense blues

國度，海水熾烈的藍

of the water that matter,

最為緊要，

the soft shapes of the rocks,

那些石頭柔和的線條，

more voluptuous than any woman.

比任何女人都刺激感官。

And she becomes a flat plane of white

於是她成為前景中

in the foreground, the tropical color

一塊平坦的白，海水退卻之後

of sand after the sea has receded.

熱帶的沙灘。