我的靴底

The treads of my boot soles

在河邊泥地上

hard pack block print

踩下紮實的雕版圖案。

ideograms in the river mud.

哪一個更長久：

Which will outlast which:

故地重遊的惆悵

the melancholy of returning here

抑或它印下的痕跡？

or the pattern made from it?