你被免除的債務，我盡力來還。

What debts your death erased, I’ll pay.

你找回的愛，會由冬日落下的雪

Snow falling through a winter afternoon

和故鄉的野菊花照料。

and the wild chrysanthemums of home

你的笑容從那一刻

will look after what love you recovered.

成了一個謎。

In a single moment, your smile

從紐約到漢密爾頓，長途大巴

has set into a cipher.

仍是那麼不快不慢地開，

The overland bus from Manhattan to Hamilton

我已寫不出半句

keeps its usual pace,

哀歌的詩行。

but writing

even half a line of elegy

我的行李箱拖著我，

escapes me.

轟隆隆地走在異國十二月結冰的路上。

Down the frozen December road

of this far country

my suitcase

tugs and rumbles.