Open the door

打開門

right onto the canal,

河水就在門外

the old wall’s whitewash

墻粉

light as snow

簌簌地

drifting to the water.

掉進水裏

The bridge arched at the end of the alley

巷尾的拱橋

seems lower

比去年

than last year.

更矮

A few white balconies

幾處白露臺

still speckled bright with flowers.

仍栽滿輕艷的盆花

The ink-green shutters

墨綠色的木百葉窗

half open, half closed

半開半閉

for the siesta.

是午睡的時候

A gondola rocks by

一艘貢都拉搖過

without song

沒有歌

They come back from the glass factory,

他們自玻璃廠歸來

saying how transparent

說起

the strawberry-red glass,

草莓紅的玻璃透明

how thin the hyacinth blue.

風信子藍的薄

I only say

我衹說

I think I see

我想我看見

Venezia,

威尼西亞

little by little,

一點一點地

becoming a sheet of glass.

變作一片玻璃