Ginkgo, cottonwood, pin oak, sweet gum, tulip tree:

银杏、杨木、针栎、香枫、百合树：

our emotions resemble leaves and alive

我们滋长的情感像叶子

to their shapes we are nourished.

活在自己的形状里。

Have you felt the expanse and contours of grief

在高大的挪威枫边缘，你有没有感觉到

along the edges of a big Norway maple?

浓浓的忧伤的轮廓？

Have you winced at the orange flare

你是否因为橙色火焰

searing the curves of a curling dogwood?

在北美山茱萸卷起的花瓣上燃烧而退缩？

I have seen from the air logged islands,

我从空中看到过树木被砍伐的岛屿，

each with a network of branching gravel roads,

都有碎石小路，交错如网,

and felt a moment of pure anger, aspen gold.

我感到片刻纯粹的愤怒，山杨般金黄。

I have seen sandhill cranes moving in an open field,

我曾看到沙丘鹤漫步旷野，

a single white whooping crane in the flock.

鹤群中一只白鹤在鸣叫。

And I have traveled along the contours

我曾行走于那些

of leaves that have no name. Here

无名叶子的边缘，

where the air is wet and the light is cool,

这里空气潮湿，寒光凛冽。

I feel what others are thinking and do not speak,

我感觉到别人想到，却没有说出的东西，

I know pleasure in the veins of a sugar maple,

我熟知一棵糖枫叶脉里的欣喜，

I am living at the edge of a new leaf.

我正活在一片新叶的边缘。