Showing posts with label fan'yi. Show all posts
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Friday, February 7, 2025

Lover/爱人

 翻译作品:

喜欢Ada Limon写的诗,很随意,却很有意境。

这里尝试翻译了她的其中一首诗: Lover/爱人

Lover

Easy light storms in through the window, soft

            edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrel’s 


            nest rigged high in the maple. I’ve got a bone 

to pick with whomever is in charge. All year, 


I’ve said, You know what’s funny? and then,

            Nothing, nothing is funny. Which makes me laugh


            in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. A friend

writes the word lover in a note and I am strangely


excited for the word lover to come back. Come back

            lover, come back to the five and dime. I could 


            squeal with the idea of blissful release, oh lover,

what a word, what a world, this gray waiting. In me,


a need to nestle deep into the safe-keeping of sky.

            I am too used to nostalgia now, a sweet escape 


         of age. Centuries of pleasure before us and after

us, still right now, a softness like the worn fabric of a nightshirt


and what I do not say is, I trust the world to come back.

            Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned 


            for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sun beam,

the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business.




爱人

薄光闯入窗口,世界

的柔软边缘被茫雾渲染,一只松鼠

的巢高筑于枫树上。对负责人我总会

鸡蛋里挑骨头。整年每一天,

对我一直说:你知道那些好笑的事吗?接着

自答:没有,没有好笑的事。在健忘即将来到

之际我深感莞尔。有个朋友把爱人

写在一则字条而让我无法言喻地对爱人

这个字眼的重现感到亢奋。回来吧

爱人,回到这个清简单纯的世界。我

一想到这种狂喜的释放就想尖叫,呵 爱人,

意义那么深,境界那么远,叫人难以分辨。

而我渴望地深居于天空的安全界限。我亦

惯于沉溺在怀旧情节中,一种岁月的甜馥

假期。我们之前或之后的世纪愉悦,即使是

这一刻,依然柔软恰如穿过数次的睡袍棉布

而我想说的是,我深信美好的境界将会回来。

回来如一个单字,早已被遗忘,因其粗暴

的温柔而被抹黑,在阳光下开的玩笑,

那个美好境界坦荡荡地回来,准备着任由蹂躏

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

翻译诗:写给父亲及未来的儿子

 To My Father/To My Future Son

The stars are not hereditary 

                        Emily Dickinson


There was a door & then a door

surrounded by a forest

Look, my eyes are not

your eyes

You move through me like rain

heard from another country

Yes, you have a country

Someday, they will find it

while searching for lost ships………..        

Once, I fell in love

during a slow-motion car crash

We looked so peaceful,  the cigarette floating from his lips

as our head whiplashed back

into the dream & all was forgiven

Because what you heard, or will hear, is true : I wrote

a better hour onto the page 

& watched the fire take it back

Something was always burning

Do you understand? I closed my mouth

but could still taste the ash

because my eyes were open

From men, I learned to praise the thickness of walls

From women, I learned to praise

If you are given my body, put it down

If you are given anything 

be sure to leave no tracks in the snow

Know that I never chose

which way the seasons turned

That it was always October in my throat

&you : every leaf refusing to rust

Quick. Can you see the red dark shifting?

This means I am touching you. This means

you are not alone – even as you are not

If you get there before me, if you think

of nothing and my face appears rippling

like a torn flag – turn back 

Turn back & find the book I left for us

filled with all the colours of the sky

forgotten by gravediggers

Use it. Use it to prove how the stars

were always what we knew they were

The exit wounds of every misfired word





写给父亲及未来的儿子

星空并非世袭的

                        Emily Dickinson


那是一扇门和一扇

森林环绕的门

你看,我的眼睛不是你的

你忽视我的存在

洒过像一场异乡的大雨

是的,你拥有自己的地域

有一天,在寻踪迷失的船只时

他们会抵达那个地方

在一场慢镜头般的撞车肇事中

我曾经找到真爱

我们是那么地镇静,烟灰从他的嘴唇弹飞

当头颅如挥鞭甩后回到那场

梦境时,一切已被原谅

因为你听过的或将听到的都是真实的:我把

一段美好的时光写在书页上

却又看着火焰把它焚蚀

一些东西永无止尽地燃烧

你懂吗?我紧闭嘴唇

但依旧尝到灰烬的味道

因为我睁开着双眼

从那些男人,我学会了赞美墙壁的厚度

从那些女人,我学会如何赞美

如果他们给你我的遗体,那就放下

如果他们给你任何东西

那就确定在雪地上不留下任何痕迹

你晓得我是不会选择

季节嬗递的方向

因为十月时常卡住喉底

还有你:拒绝霉锈的每一片叶子

快点。你没看见鲜红的黑暗在迁动吗?

这显示我正触摸你。显示

你不会独自而孤单 – 即使你并非如此

如果你在我之前抵达那个地点,如果

你一丝感觉也没有而我的脸

褶皱如破裂的旗帜 – 那就回头吧

回去寻觅我为你我留弃的那本书

它布满着所有已被掘墓者

遗忘的各种天色

利用它。利用它来举证那些繁星

确是我们所明了的繁星一样

在每一句失言的创伤找到出口