1.

一

I won’t forget the ocean’s color,

the seagulls’ urgent cries,

不想忘記海

each footprint on the sand

的顏色

lost and lingering, don’t want

不想忘記海鷗呼喚迫切的呼喚

不想忘記沙灘上每一種流連

ice cream to melt so hopelessly in broiling sun,

凌亂的腳步，不想

the hours hopelessly dissolved

Soon we diminish, ebbing waves,

亮花花的太陽下冰淇淋溶化得那麼絕望

never to break again

時間溶化得那麼絕望

on this rocky shore

很快我們也要溶化

Is it possible to freeze

像退潮的水不知能不能再回到同一沙岸

再拍響同一塊礁石

a last oceanic undulation

能不能

and keep you

In vain cry the gulls

留住這最後一彎角落

I won’t forget our steps,

留住海的波動，留住你

one after one

海鷗喊得徒勞

merging in sand

我不想忘記我們的腳步一步步

like broken shells

彷彿貝殼碎了

就要融入沙

2.

Spread the tongue,

二

let honey-walnut ice cream roll

sweetness over tastebuds

或者敞開舌瓣

Let sunlight on this pathside bench

讓蜂蜜核桃冰淇淋襲捲

warm us like that green orchid tree

味蕾這赤裸的軟香

我們坐路邊板凳

After sunset

讓陽光把我們曬成嫩綠的羊蹄甲

the carved window

open as an oyster to the sea

日落後

We share

雕花的窗台赤裸裸敞開

each other

彷彿牡蠣擁抱海

我們分享

3.

彼此

Is it possible

I promised you a skyful of soft silk,

三

its veil stitched with colored threads

Gulls call like like in the distance

能不能

so not to disturb us

我應許你滿天彩繡的羅帳

Dogs and surfing kids drift home

海鷗遠遠說喜歡喜歡

from the seaside, leaving the soft spray

不打擾我們

所有衝浪的孩童與狗都回家

You were here then,

海邊只有浪花溫柔的慾望

on a beach where wild geese fattened,

our slumber

那時你也在

deepened by the waves

沙灘上野雁都肥了，安靜陪我們打盹

Sunset’s sail crosses that far shore,

聽浪

drops anchor, promises to unfurl

夕陽的帆船往對岸走

停泊妥當，應許明天再來

some day, if not tomorrow

明天，總有一天