不記得何時啟碇，何時泊岸

Just when they cast the hawsers from the pier

不記得水手把繩圈拋向

I cannot say, when what held tight

碼頭還是甲板，不記得

was loosened. I can’t recall

束緊還是鬆開，漸漸

the mist against my cheeks,

不記得水氣撲面的感覺

on my tongue the salt of sea air,

海風的味道，霧的形狀

what shape the fogbank.

不記得穿過寬闊還是狹窄

兩島之間，青青還是墨墨

I can’t recall how wide the pass

不記得躍起的水花

between two islands, or whether

何時跌落，退遠，變色

they were green or dark.

Nor even if the foam arcing from the bow

浮蕩的生涯，記憶

rose or fell in color.

隨跫音在船末戛止

只剩下欄杆木然的感覺

Life drifts with memory

還記得你獨特的容姿嗎

as if standing at the stern rail

探身俯望，徒自掙扎的白色

faintly lost. Who remembers

是一連串被源源丟棄的

how you looked, leaning out,

無人再細加分辨的日子

gazing down at the white tumult

as if at the wake of days

abandoned, impossible to count.