Midnight, leaning at a window

子夜伏於窗邊

as night deepens, unfolding its ink-dark wings.

夜色折翼下降

Not one star

唉好黑，沒有一顆星

yet from the harbor below the mountain

低頭卻見山下的海港

the lights of fishing boats burn steadily awake,

堅亮的漁火都不曾睡去

neither yawning nor tossing in bed.

沒有呵欠，也沒有輾轉

Their orange lamps aloft

提著盞盞領航的橘燈

lure fish and dragons to their glow.

趕路的魚龍都挨向光源

I too must drift from this peaceful shore,

我也將自安穩的河灘

hoping for anchorage, as will these boats,

依依漂泊如辛苦的漁汎

leaving familiar wind and wave.

尋覓安根的居停

Tonight, a solitary clam, open to the universe

帶不走聽慣的風濤與波聲

over the sleepless harbor,

今夜，我是寂寞的蚌張口向宇宙

I’m sleepless too, loath to wake

也對著失眠的港口

at sunrise in a dream, in a mist,

不睡有不睡的原因

snuffing the fishing light, shoving off.

不想一閉眼明晨就天亮

滅了漁火，啓了航船

猶在夢裏嗎煙水正推著船影……