Her soul’s a leaping shadow

心靈中閃出奔騰的影

tethered to a beast.

突然，遭一匹獸拖住

Love is the pillar, thick, invisible,

愛是一根無形的巨柱

she yearns from horseflesh to embrace.

當她閃身而出

雙手抱住它，它就存在

The lower half

hauls back, its male-strong joints set

可她下半身的雄馬

with the weight of a sliding mountain,

身子後挫，移動的骨節是劇烈的震央

its hooves jammed deep in mud,

一座大山傾側下沉，馬蹄

though her longing springs from earth.

已塌進污衊的泥中

而大地是她龐沛的力源

Human melds to horse by blood, by muscle,

the heart rent by two bodies.

人與馬的駁口，用血肉來焊接

Will her trembling hands

她裂心感受錯體的劇痛

go slack, her lifted head

緊張的雙手似乎在顫抖

decline to a horseneck

會不會突然鬆弛

bowing to the soil?

高昂的頸骨軟成馬頭

向大地俯首？

The world’s a gaudy, turning carousel,

a herd of horses crossing plains.

世界是旋轉的走馬燈

Their lowered mouths gnaw grass, gulp water,

一羣馬走過平原

but I see her still

低頭嚙草，喝水

preserving the luminous coal,

我卻看見她

still struggling, wrestling

舉著孤獨的火

with the half that is this horse,

照自己的靈魂

myself.

拉扯角力，而我是那下沉的馬身