What debts your death erased, I’ll pay.

你被免除的債務，我盡力來還。

Snow falling through a winter afternoon

你找回的愛，會由冬日落下的雪

and the wild chrysanthemums of home

和故鄉的野菊花照料。

will look after what love you recovered.

你的笑容從那一刻

In a single moment, your smile

成了一個謎。

has set into a cipher.

從紐約到漢密爾頓，長途大巴

The overland bus from Manhattan to Hamilton

仍是那麼不快不慢地開，

keeps its usual pace,

我已寫不出半句

but writing

哀歌的詩行。

even half a line of elegy

escapes me.

我的行李箱拖著我，

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.