Honey mushrooms glow in the dark;

蜜環菌在黑暗中發光；

in a sweat, a journalist wakes

大汗淋漓，一個記者

to a roadside bomb; when a woman

從路邊的炸彈中醒來；假如

outside a bakery offers to wash

一個麵包店外的女人為你提供

your car windshield, you give her

清洗擋風玻璃的服務，你給她

some cash, and what will suffice?

一些現金，這樣就夠了嗎？

Cottonwood seeds swirl in the air;

楊絮在風中打旋；

in Medellín, your host invites you

在麥德林，主人邀你

to lunch at his house; you sip

在他房內共進午餐；你呷飲著

potato and cilantro soup, glance

香菜土豆湯，目光投向

at a door open to an enclosed yard

敞開的門外封閉的院落，

with a hammock and mango tree,

那裏有一棵芒果樹和吊床

the space a refuge inside bullet-

以及佈滿麻點的包容逃難者的

pocked walls. A narwhal pokes

圍墻。一隻獨角鯨將長牙

its tusk through ice into the air;

鑽透冰層侵入空氣；

it exhales: whiteout: how to live,

氣體呼出：雪盲：何為生活，

where to go: in the yard, you hear

何去何從：在院子裏，你聽見

a circular saw rip the length of a plank.

圓鋸縱切木板的聲音。