Now. Everything once more goes silent,

現在。一切又靜止下來

like the old, trying hard to forget themselves,

比如老人，盡情地

basking in the granules of sunlight,

忘掉自身，沐浴著

陽光的沙粒

like me at the window, pleased

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

比如我隔窗觀賞

葉落紛紛。沒有風吹來

Like those sweepers

raking the broad earth into leafpiles.

又比如掃街的人

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

清理大地上的落葉，把它們堆在一起

but they pause in this fall moment, speaking softly.

你以為他們要掏出火柴來燒

他們卻置身生命的秋天，沉吟

A gust strews

autumn all over the street;

一陣風吹來

shapes of dry leaves, thin and frail,

秋天含滿了街道

stick to time’s clean wall.

落葉單薄的身影

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