The talk at midnight
The old man who talked sat at back of wall lamp
I tried to see him who was in the dark and
Several meters away from me. As if a piece of relieve
His whole body plunged into the dark completely.
Also plunged into a period of standing time.
I couldn’t see his figure, but hear someone talk.
Be alike that sound comes from the dark itself. I tired again
To recognize the light from dense fog in his heart.
I should talk him something,
But the midnight made me tired; moreover the bleak moisture
Opened its dark mouth, and engulfed the last and dim light
Emitted by the wall lamp.
2006/7/1
《深夜的交谈》
倾诉的老者背向暗淡的壁灯
我努力辩识几米开外
昏暗中的他。仿佛一尊浮雕
他整个人陷在一片黑暗中
陷在一段滞钝的时光里。
看不清他的轮廓,只听见有人在说。
仿佛那声音来自黑暗本身。我努力辨识
他内心迷雾中的光亮
我试图说些什么,
但深夜另人感觉疲倦;阴冷的潮气
张开黑暗之口,吞噬壁灯发出的
最后一抹昏黄。
2006/2/16 初稿
2006/7/1 修改
The Balance
Your rusty dream,
Is a shabby balance.
You use it to weigh your fat and clumsy body.
In one salver of the balance sits the weight of reality
You poise the left and right salvers——
You blow constantly into
Your body. The balloon of the body becomes
Bigger and bigger, the balance inclines to one side.
You blow again and again, till the balance
Never inclines to another side.
You continue to blow, and
The balloon of your body becomes bigger and bigger
Then the balloon of your body explodes with a slam——
2006/7/1
《天平》
你锈蚀的梦,
是一架破旧的天平。
你用它称臃肿的肉体。
天平的一端垒积着现实的砝码
你平衡着左右两个托盘——
你不断向体内
吹气。肉体的皮球
越来越庞大,天平歪向一侧。
你继续吹,继续吹,直到天平
永不偏向另一侧。
你继续吹,
肉体的皮球越来越庞大
肉体的皮球,砰的一声脆响——
2006/5/12 初稿
2006/6/12 修改
2006/7/1 再改
《Gloomy》
The gray woman opened the window
Then she saw the moonlight pervaded the sky.
The night was a bottle of oblique paint
Gray woman and her face were both gray.
So was eyesight. She lour and drooped
Whose breath can bring her the light?
“Life is constantly ill.” She
Hated disease. She said the grave
Lay on the far and unknowable place. Ah, like smothering
The tears, she controlled the rampant ashes in her heart.
The gray woman wandered and pondered in her small house.
The gray woman opened the window and saw pure moonlight
2006/7/1
《郁》
灰色的女人,打开窗户
看见月光弥漫整个天空
夜晚是一瓶倾斜的颜料
灰色的女人,脸孔也是灰的。
眼神也是。低头蹙眉
谁的呼吸带给她光的质感?
“生活就是持续的病。”
她诅咒疾病。她说坟墓在
远的不可知的地方。呵,
忍住泪水,也忍住心里蔓延的灰。
灰色的女人在小屋中徘徊,沉思。
灰色的女人,打开窗户看见皎洁的月光
2006/2//22 初稿
2006/7/1 修改