登山在山腳終止，不是不想

At the foot of the mountain, we stop climbing.

攀上山頂，是被守山人攔住，

We’d go higher, but the guard at the reservoir

理由是你我像潛在縱火者

says we look like arsonists.

——我們為什麼縱火？變態的懷疑，

—Why should we start a fire? Perverse suspicion,

說明制度從小處反對人——

a system against people at every turn.

不得已我們只好改走水庫大壩，

We change our route to the dam,

沿壩溜達——觀察，任何地方都能帶來

strolling along, eyes open for any joy.

樂趣——一座乾涸水庫也有不凡的境界：

A dry reservoir’s extraordinary,

它的荒涼等待著由想像改造

its desolation a blank screen

——我看碧綠千頃，上下都是浮雲；

—huge sweeps of green adrift with clouds.

看自己正淩波微步，逍遙等於仙人

I might walk on water, casual as the immortals

——當然，有沒有這些不重要。

—well, no matter. What counts

重要的是如果退後一步，我和你也成為風景，

is this: one step back, we’re just landscape,

融入自然成為它的一部分——更廣大的部分，

dissolved into nature—joining vastness,

譬如風搖晃樹木送來沁人肺腑的清香，

the shuddering wind that bears sweet fragrance.

野花星星點點，猶如大地閃爍的瞳仁，

Wildflowers, scattered like glittering, starry eyes of earth,

不過是襯托你我；同時也告訴我們，

only mark us off, saying

人間事沒有什麼了不起，不管是友誼消失，

nothing human’s so important, neither the fading friendship

還是灰飛煙滅的婚姻，都是可拋棄的過去

nor the marriage burned to ash, all past.

——我不知道你怎樣——我的確

Not sure about you—what was finished

已拋棄很多過去。最近，我看山是山，

I cast loose. These days

又不是山；看水是水，又不是水。

I see the mountain as mountain,

yet not mountain; I see water as water,

yet not water.