站在行李托运处消磨时间：

Standing at the baggage passing time:

得克萨斯州奥斯丁机场——我的车还没有来。

Austin Texas airport—my ride hasn’t come yet.

我的前妻在家制作网站，

My former wife is making websites from her home,

一个孩子很少露面，

one son’s seldom seen,

另一个和他的妻子有一个属于他们自己的男孩和女孩。

the other one and his wife have a boy and girl of their own.

我妻子和继女工作日都会呆在城里，

My wife and stepdaughter are spending weekdays in town

这样她可以上高中。

so she can get to high school.

我母亲已经九十六岁了，依然独自生活，她也在城里住，

My mother ninety-six still lives alone and she’s in town too,

总能按时勉强恢复神志。

always gets her sanity back just barely in time.

我上上一任妻子已经成为了一名有特点的诗人；

My former former wife has become a unique poet;

我多数作品

most of my work,

比如某某 已经完成。

such as it is             is done.

今年的满月出现在10月2日，

Full moon was October second this year,

我吃了一块月饼，在甲板上入睡

I ate a mooncake, slept out on the deck

白光穿过松林漆黑的枝干

white light beaming through the black boughs of the pine

猫头鹰的啼鸣和晃动的鹿角，

owl hoots and rattling antlers,

卡斯特和帕勒克双子星座强势升起

Castor and Pollux rising strong

——得知北极星会偏移，真是令人欣慰！

—it’s good to know that the Pole Star drifts!

即便是我们眼前的夜空也在悄然流逝，

that even our present night sky slips away,

但我不确定我能再见到它。

not that I’ll see it.

或许，很久以后

Or maybe I will, much later,

有些灵魂会在天上

some far time walking the spirit path in the sky,

踏上漫长的灵途——你会自然而然地重新融入进

that long walk of spirits—where you fall right back into the

“阴界那狭窄而痛苦的通道”

“narrow painful passageway of the Bardo”

挤压你的小脑袋

squeeze your little skull

你又重新

and there you are again

等待乘车

waiting for your ride