現在。一切又靜止下來

Now. Everything once more goes silent,

比如老人，盡情地

like the old, trying hard to forget themselves,

忘掉自身，沐浴著

basking in the granules of sunlight,

陽光的沙粒

like me at the window, pleased

比如我隔窗觀賞

at the leaves’ one-by-one descent. No wind.

葉落紛紛。沒有風吹來

Like those sweepers

又比如掃街的人

raking the broad earth into leafpiles.

清理大地上的落葉，把它們堆在一起

You think they’ll fish out matches and start the burn,

你以為他們要掏出火柴來燒

but they pause in this fall moment, speaking softly.

他們卻置身生命的秋天，沉吟

A gust strews

一陣風吹來

autumn all over the street;

秋天含滿了街道

shapes of dry leaves, thin and frail,

落葉單薄的身影

stick to time’s clean wall.

貼在時間乾淨的牆上