Caught in the storm’s iron cage, miles

把家園覆罩在暴雨的鐵籠

of the motherland’s crumbling earth and stone.

隨千里轟轟的土石流而流

Terror whips slash at the harbors,

有戰慄的鞭條撕裂，在海口

waves roll rogue over boats that fish for dreams.

瘋狗浪撲殺夢的垂釣者

Names lie buried in the sleepy morning news,

把名字埋在侵晨頭版新聞的睡眼裡

rumble with ammo trucks at the border, waiting to explode.

隨彈藥車翻滾，到夢境外爆炸

Death is sexless, peeling face after face.

死亡沒有性別，只揭去一張張面皮

God’s washed his hands of it.

上帝說這與我無關

The chimney’s flaking skin propitiates the sun.

用煙囪潰爛的肌膚向城市乞討陽光

Autumn dust drifts like leaves of spirit cash,

塵灰如落葉拋灑秋的冥紙

winter a stolen key

冬天是一把劫色的鎖鑰

opening acres of emptied souls.

打開了一畝畝虛無的心田

The flesh of young women gleams, sacrifice

用稚齡的女體去當霓虹牲禮

for the dark lanes of ghosts.

祭悼野鬼處處的黑街

Flies of fear, rattle of gunshots,

恐嚇驚叱畏怯的蚊蠅

smoke, rape.

槍聲又飄起姦殺的迷霧

Maggots gorge on life or death.

是肉蛆，不論生死，恒被一雙手撥弄

Bingo numbers knock the gates of fate.

如賓果的彈珠狠叩命運之門

Heaven smooths the scar, night’s river

人間傷慟怎撫平？默默流向天河

gliding a thousand candleflames.

一千支白燭光搖曳的夜