长长的海滩，被月光照亮，

On the long shore, lit by the moon

正好单独呈现这一对情侣。

To show them properly alone,

突然间他们拥抱在一起，

Two lovers suddenly embraced

影子就像是一个人投下。

So that their shadows were as one.

这个平常的夜晚获得荣光，

The ordinary night was graced

因为在真正的海潮之中，

For them by the swift tide of blood

他们的血液静默潮涌。

That silently they took at flood,

一时间他们奖赏给自己，

And for a little time they prized

一个小小的天堂。

Themselves emparadised.

然后，就像被舞台上的恐惧击中，

Then, as if shaken by stage-fright

在月亮骨白的强硬光线下，

Beneath the hard moon’s bony light,

他们双双伫立沙滩，

They stood together on the sand

在彼此的目光中手足无措。

Embarrassed in each other’s sight

但他们仍然心照不宣地手拉手，

But still conspiring hand in hand,

直到他们看到，在他们脚下，

Until they saw, there underfoot,

就像这个世界已经找到了他们，

As though the world had found them out,

鮟鱇翻身上岸，虽然已经死了，

The goose fish turning up, though dead,

但那巨大的脑袋在呲牙微笑。

His hugely grinning head.

在瓷白的光线下它躺着，

There in the china light he lay,

带着远古气息中的腐烂和灰色。

Most ancient and corrupt and grey.

情侣犹豫如何看待它的微笑，

They hesitated at his smile,

想知道它想说些什么。

Wondering what it seemed to say

他们在沙上看了一会儿，

To lovers who a little while

似乎明白了什么。

Before had thought to understand,

只有对那死鱼采用暴力，

By violence upon the sand,

才能证明这世界仍然属于他们。

The only way that could be known

To make a world their own.

那是一种咧开大嘴月牙一样的微笑，

平静中透出那么一种色情，

It was a wide and moony grin

小情侣不知道它想要表达什么，

Together peaceful and obscene;

最终决定不把它当作喜剧演员，

They knew not what he would express,

在说什么“成功还是失败”。

So finished a comedian

这微笑被当成一种定情信物，

He might mean failure or success,

在他们突然的，全新和耻感的爱情

But took it for an emblem of

被观察时，在他们接吻时

Their sudden, new and guilty love

——那个必须要保持僵硬乐观主义的时刻。

To be observed by, when they kissed,

That rigid optimist.

所以这鱼成了德高望重的定情见证人，

半明半暗中那么招人难受地温润厚道。

So he became their patriarch,

它的嗓子看起来被沙子噎住，

Dreadfully mild in the half-dark.

它的尖桩一样的牙齿在沙上印上印迹。

His throat that the sand seemed to choke,

但这些都解释不了是什么笑话，

His picket teeth, these left their mark

让它笑得这么开心，当它躺在那里，

But never did explain the joke

当那月亮西沉，

That so amused him, lying ther

沿着那静止和倾斜的

While the moon went down to disappear

十二星座标出的天空之轨。

Along the still and tilted track

That bears the zodiac.