看著你卻不知如何閱讀你

Watching you, not knowing how to read

呼吸的信息，時而平緩，時而

the syntax of your breath, now peaceful, now

急喘，午夜窗外

quick, past midnight’s window

船舶引擎在聒噪

a boat motor gnawing,

人的聲響通過擴音器

night or day these human sounds

不分晝夜，侵入

a trespass on our private space.

私人的空間

You turn your head, eyes half open

你側過頭來，眼微開

as if reaching a far-off realm.

彷彿想起一些遙遠的事情……

Through the bars of your crib

隔著嬰床井然的木欄

I keep measuring your breaths,

我仍在閱讀你的呼吸

long or short, unrhymed, softly rhythmic.

長或短句，無韻，並不鏗鏘

The motor eats my thoughts.

引擎在窗外

Your cough seems to doubt

不斷擾亂我的思維

the dark’s unstoppable totality.

你偶然的咳嗽

If night’s outside

彷彿質疑

what’s in?

夜的一切與必然

From the swaying boat I watch you.

夜在窗外？

Something glints amid the waves.

窗內呢？

我在船舶的浮泛中看著你

看到波浪中彷彿一點光芒