It seems you must grow

看來你必須慢慢

into your death slowly,

成長為死亡，

as if it were a pair of new shoes

就像一雙新鞋

waiting on the closet floor,

在壁櫥外的地板上等候，

smelling of the animal

聞起來有製成它的

it came from, but still too big

動物味道，但是太大

too stiff for you to wear.

太硬，穿不上。

Meanwhile you dance barefoot

此時你光著腳跳舞

your shaky dance of pretence,

虛弱的舞姿在假裝，

and we dance with you,

而我們與你同舞，

the pulses in our own wrists

你腕上的脈搏

ticking away.

嘀嗒流逝。

In this small truce

這就是身體一直等待的

the body waits,

短暫休戰，

having waged war on itself

它對自己開戰

for years. You say

已有多年。你說

the water tastes of flowers.

水嘗起來像花。

You steal on tiptoe

你踮起腳尖偷盜

past the closet door.

繞過壁櫥門口。