In the boat at Three Gorges

從夢你的夢中醒來

I wake from dreaming you,

我在三峽的船上

the monkeys’ cries gone

猿啼止了

a thousand years, now only

千年來只有隨你

the wind that follows you,

吟頌的風聲

its chants of praise

吹開我的耳朵

opening my ears,

我的眼睛

my eyes.

醒來，仰看你看過

Roused, I see

白帝城頭

as you did

的雲彩

clouds over Baidicheng.

江水，如常向前流去

The current sweeps as always

向所有的堤岸

by the banks

向大海

unto the sea.

而你，始終沒有靠岸

You never pull ashore

轉過峭壁

but round each cliff face,

撫平了

big rocks sliding past,

岩塊

one curtain of mountains

轉過一重山

opening to the next.

又一重山

The boat grounds on a pebbled shoal

擱在亂石的淺灘

amid unending eddies.

迴旋折騰

You step off,

你轉身涉足

vanishing

就過去了

into these echoes, this spray.

回響，激起浪花

Through the hull

我在船緣接聽

audible time,

我醒在時空透明的江水間

clear river water.