一

1.

I won’t forget the ocean’s color,

不想忘記海

the seagulls’ urgent cries,

的顏色

each footprint on the sand

不想忘記海鷗呼喚迫切的呼喚

lost and lingering, don’t want

不想忘記沙灘上每一種流連

凌亂的腳步，不想

ice cream to melt so hopelessly in broiling sun,

the hours hopelessly dissolved

亮花花的太陽下冰淇淋溶化得那麼絕望

Soon we diminish, ebbing waves,

時間溶化得那麼絕望

never to break again

很快我們也要溶化

on this rocky shore

像退潮的水不知能不能再回到同一沙岸

Is it possible to freeze

再拍響同一塊礁石

能不能

a last oceanic undulation

and keep you

留住這最後一彎角落

In vain cry the gulls

留住海的波動，留住你

I won’t forget our steps,

海鷗喊得徒勞

one after one

我不想忘記我們的腳步一步步

merging in sand

彷彿貝殼碎了

like broken shells

就要融入沙

2.

二

Spread the tongue,

let honey-walnut ice cream roll

或者敞開舌瓣

sweetness over tastebuds

讓蜂蜜核桃冰淇淋襲捲

Let sunlight on this pathside bench

味蕾這赤裸的軟香

warm us like that green orchid tree

我們坐路邊板凳

讓陽光把我們曬成嫩綠的羊蹄甲

After sunset

the carved window

日落後

open as an oyster to the sea

雕花的窗台赤裸裸敞開

We share

彷彿牡蠣擁抱海

each other

我們分享

彼此

3.

Is it possible

三

I promised you a skyful of soft silk,

its veil stitched with colored threads

能不能

Gulls call like like in the distance

我應許你滿天彩繡的羅帳

so not to disturb us

海鷗遠遠說喜歡喜歡

Dogs and surfing kids drift home

不打擾我們

from the seaside, leaving the soft spray

所有衝浪的孩童與狗都回家

海邊只有浪花溫柔的慾望

You were here then,

on a beach where wild geese fattened,

那時你也在

our slumber

沙灘上野雁都肥了，安靜陪我們打盹

deepened by the waves

聽浪

Sunset’s sail crosses that far shore,

夕陽的帆船往對岸走

drops anchor, promises to unfurl

停泊妥當，應許明天再來

some day, if not tomorrow

明天，總有一天