蜜環菌在黑暗中發光；

Honey mushrooms glow in the dark;

大汗淋漓，一個記者

in a sweat, a journalist wakes

從路邊的炸彈中醒來；假如

to a roadside bomb; when a woman

一個麵包店外的女人為你提供

outside a bakery offers to wash

清洗擋風玻璃的服務，你給她

your car windshield, you give her

一些現金，這樣就夠了嗎？

some cash, and what will suffice?

楊絮在風中打旋；

Cottonwood seeds swirl in the air;

在麥德林，主人邀你

in Medellín, your host invites you

在他房內共進午餐；你呷飲著

to lunch at his house; you sip

香菜土豆湯，目光投向

potato and cilantro soup, glance

敞開的門外封閉的院落，

at a door open to an enclosed yard

那裏有一棵芒果樹和吊床

with a hammock and mango tree,

以及佈滿麻點的包容逃難者的

the space a refuge inside bullet-

圍墻。一隻獨角鯨將長牙

pocked walls. A narwhal pokes

鑽透冰層侵入空氣；

its tusk through ice into the air;

氣體呼出：雪盲：何為生活，

it exhales: whiteout: how to live,

何去何從：在院子裏，你聽見

where to go: in the yard, you hear

圓鋸縱切木板的聲音。

a circular saw rip the length of a plank.