Longing is longer than a road than the rainy season than a snake’s thought or

想念比路長比雨季長比蛇的沈思貓的凝視長比垂榕的亂髮比修女的晚禱長

a cat’s gaze longer than the weeping figtree’s tangled hair than the nun’s vespers

想念比銀河長比一萬六千行的荷馬史詩長比縈繞的蟬夢比寒武紀的空窗長

Longer than the Milky Way than the sixteen-thousand-line Homeric Hymns

比枕間的吻比城市懺悔的燈影長那距離恰巧是櫻花從樹肩緩緩落地的距離

Longer than the lingering cicada’s dream and the blank Cambrian era

Longer than a kiss lives on a pillow than the remorseful shadows of the streetlamps

its measure the span of a cherry blossom’s immeasurable descent