看高更畫作《失去童貞》

after Gauguin’s The Loss of Virginity

那失去清白的

It is our eyes that lose

是我們的眼睛，它們

their innocence, ravished by

被這些紫色和綠色洗劫，當我們凝視

these purples and greens as we gaze

那個平躺的少女，

at the woman lying there,

她的兩隻腳踝壓在一起，

her ankles pressed together,

好像霍爾拜因的基督。

like Holbein’s Christ.

她純然靜止，

She is perfectly immobile,

彷彿那隻象征情欲的狐狸

as if the fox signifying lust

根本不存在，那隻小鳥也沒有

were hardly there, nor the bird

棲止在她松開的手上。

settled on her open hand.

甚至那支向她緩緩吹來的

Even the procession that winds 

行進中的隊列

its slow way towards her

也不過遠處一條

is simply a curve of darkness

幽暗的曲線。在這純色的

in the distance. In this realm

國度，海水熾烈的藍

of pure color it is the intense blues

最為緊要，

of the water that matter,

那些石頭柔和的線條，

the soft shapes of the rocks,

比任何女人都刺激感官。

more voluptuous than any woman.

於是她成為前景中

And she becomes a flat plane of white

一塊平坦的白，海水退卻之後

in the foreground, the tropical color

熱帶的沙灘。

of sand after the sea has receded.