Light the pond reflects

池水反射之光

is both diffused and absorbed:

漫不經心又全神貫注：

today the surface

今日，水面

enshrouded in close-knit clouds

裹著一層密織的雲

no bass no trout nor I breach.

沒有鱸魚沒有鱒魚沒有我破水而出。

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Five duck eggs nested

五枚鴨蛋在海韭菜中

in arrow grass. At my footfall,

安巢。當我落腳，

the mother flies up.

母鴨驚飛 。

Friends scatter. With you gone,

朋友們各奔東西。你若不在，

who will know me anymore?

有誰還認得我？

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Absence a presence

缺席首先

at first: as if, like water

是一種在場：像水

let loose, the spirit

被釋放，精神

unembodied flows outwards

不具形體向外流動

into those of us closest.

游入最親近的那個。

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As in an Escher,

彷彿一幅埃舍爾的畫，

the negative space, the space

負空間，那爲你所缺席的

absented by you,

空間，

stared at intently, pops out,

在強烈凝視之後，跳出來，

dominating the picture

支配畫面

until we adjust

直至視線調整，

and the black cutout recedes,

黑色背景後移，

leaving a new take

你

on you, a structural plane

以一個新的形象顯露，

sharply incorporeal.

全由精神構成。