昨夜飞花絮满天
银妆粉砌惹谁怜
一窗晓色堪相忆
万朵暗香疏影间
莫教丹心焚烈火
且将玉蕊沐芳烟
满头雪待风吹去
相对分明两少年
银妆粉砌惹谁怜
一窗晓色堪相忆
万朵暗香疏影间
莫教丹心焚烈火
且将玉蕊沐芳烟
满头雪待风吹去
相对分明两少年
2018年3月
| ИВА Анна Ахматова |
柳树 [俄] 安娜·阿赫玛托娃 |
И дряхлый пук дерев.
Пушкин
А я росла в узорной тишине, В прохладной детской молодого века. И не был мил мне голос человека, А голос ветра был понятен мне. Я лопухи любила и крапиву, Но больше всех серебряную иву. И, благодарная, она жила Со мной всю жизнь, плакучими ветвями Бессонницу овеивала снами. И — странно!— я ее пережила. Там пень торчит, чужими голосами Другие ивы что-то говорят Под нашими, под теми небесами. И я молчу... Как будто умер брат. |
... 还有几株苍老的树木
——亚历山大·普希金
而我长成于斑斓有序的静谧, 在那年轻的世纪凉意习习的稚园。 人声从未令我感觉亲切, 微风我却懂得它的语言。 我喜欢牛蒡和荨麻, 但银柳最令人眷恋。 它以万种柔情伴我此生, 如泣如诉的枝干 以梦乡吹拂我的无眠。 而现在——竟然!——它先我而去了。 树桩在那里伫立;别的柳树 彼此交谈着,以一种陌生的絮语, 在我们的、在那些天空之下。 而我静默无言,恍如失去了一个兄弟。 |
| Enough Music by Dorianne Laux |
听够了音乐 [美] 多莉安·劳克斯 ① |
| Sometimes, when we're on a long drive, and we've talked enough and listened to enough music and stopped twice, once to eat, once to see the view, we fall into this rhythm of silence. It swings back and forth between us like a rope over a lake. Maybe it's what we don't say that saves us. |
有时候,当我们驾行在漫漫长途, 我们聊够了也听够了音乐 还停下来两次, 一次吃点东西,一次看看风景, 我们坠入了这静默的旋律。 它在你我之间回荡, 就像湖面上的一根绳索。 或许正是我们没说的那些 挽救了我们。 ① 或译为 多兰妮·劳克斯 |
| A Dog Has Died by Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Translated by Alfred Yankauer |
一只狗死了 [智利] 巴勃罗·聂鲁达 (1904–1973) |
||
My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I'll join him right there, but now he's gone with his shaggy coat, his bad manners and his cold nose, and I, the materialist, who never believed in any promised heaven in the sky for any human being, I believe in a heaven I'll never enter. Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom where my dog waits for my arrival waving his fan-like tail in friendship. Ai, I'll not speak of sadness here on earth, of having lost a companion who was never servile. His friendship for me, like that of a porcupine withholding its authority, was the friendship of a star, aloof, with no more intimacy than was called for, with no exaggerations: he never climbed all over my clothes filling me full of his hair or his mange, he never rubbed up against my knee like other dogs obsessed with sex. No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he'd keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing. Ai, how many times have I envied his tail as we walked together on the shores of the sea in the lonely winter of Isla Negra where the wintering birds filled the sky and my hairy dog was jumping about full of the voltage of the sea's movement: my wandering dog, sniffing away with his golden tail held high, face to face with the ocean's spray. Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit. There are no good-byes for my dog who has died, and we don't now and never did lie to each other. So now he's gone and I buried him, and that's all there is to it. |
我的狗死了 我把他埋在花园里 一架锈迹斑斑的旧机器旁边 有一天我会跟他一起待在那里 但现在他已经走了,带着他那乱蓬蓬的外套 他的臭脾气和冰凉的鼻子 而我,这个从不相信天上有什么 应许给任何人类的天堂的 唯物主义者 我相信有一个我永远进不了的天堂 没错,我相信有一个狗的天堂 在那里我的狗等着我的到来 摇动着他扇子一样的尾巴,满怀友善 唉,我不想在这世间 谈论失去了一个伙伴的悲伤 这个不知道讨人欢心的家伙 他对我的友谊,就像来自一头豪猪 坚守着自己的威仪 如同与一颗星星的君子之交,淡然 断无名分之外的亲近 毫不夸张地说: 他从未扒着我的衣服搭上搭下 用他的毛和赖皮把我填得严严实实 他从不在我的膝盖上瞎蹭一气 像别的狗那样为情所乱 不,我的狗会凝视着我 给予我所需要的关注 这种关注之必要 在于让我这样虚荣的人明白: 作为一只狗,他是在浪费时间 但,用这双比我的纯净得多的眼睛 他会继续凝视着我 以一种只为我保留的神情 他所有温馨的和乱糟糟的生活 都在我的近旁,从不添乱 一无所求 唉,有多少次我对他那条尾巴羡慕不已 在内格拉岛那孤独的冬季 当我们一起在海岸散步 越冬的鸟遮蔽了天空 我毛茸茸的狗欢跳雀跃 充满了大海动荡的能量 我这条奔走不定的狗,尽情地嗅、吸 高高竖起他金色的尾巴 直面海洋的汽浪 欢乐,欢乐,欢乐啊 只因狗才懂得怎样才能快乐 只有当他们那无以为耻的精神 得以放浪形骸 这里没有再见的说辞致我那已死去的狗 我们现在不会也从不曾相互欺骗 如今他既已离去而我已将他安葬 那这一切就是这样。 |
| The God Who Loves You by Carl Dennis |
那个爱你的神 [美] 卡尔·丹尼斯 |
||
It must be troubling for the god who loves you To ponder how much happier you’d be today Had you been able to glimpse your many futures. It must be painful for him to watch you on Friday evenings Driving home from the office, content with your week— Three fine houses sold to deserving families— Knowing as he does exactly what would have happened Had you gone to your second choice for college, Knowing the roommate you’d have been allotted Whose ardent opinions on painting and music Would have kindled in you a lifelong passion. A life thirty points above the life you’re living On any scale of satisfaction. And every point A thorn in the side of the god who loves you. You don’t want that, a large-souled man like you Who tries to withhold from your wife the day’s disappointments So she can save her empathy for the children. And would you want this god to compare your wife With the woman you were destined to meet on the other campus? It hurts you to think of him ranking the conversation You’d have enjoyed over there higher in insight Than the conversation you’re used to. And think how this loving god would feel Knowing that the man next in line for your wife Would have pleased her more than you ever will Even on your best days, when you really try. Can you sleep at night believing a god like that Is pacing his cloudy bedroom, harassed by alternatives You’re spared by ignorance? The difference between what is And what could have been will remain alive for him Even after you cease existing, after you catch a chill Running out in the snow for the morning paper, Losing eleven years that the god who loves you Will feel compelled to imagine scene by scene Unless you come to the rescue by imagining him No wiser than you are, no god at all, only a friend No closer than the actual friend you made at college, The one you haven’t written in months. Sit down tonight And write him about the life you can talk about With a claim to authority, the life you’ve witnessed, Which for all you know is the life you’ve chosen. |
对于那个爱你的神,这一定让他伤透脑筋 为你今天的幸福可以增加几分而纠结不停 假如你能窥见你的将来,那种种的可能。 对他来说一定于心不忍,看着你在星期五的晚上 从办公室驾车回家,对自己的这个星期心满意足—— 售出了三套靓宅,卖给了当对的家庭—— 因为,既然为神,他当然知道当初 假如你去了选中的第二所大学,一切又会被如何安排 因为他知道,那个和你分在一起的室友 他对绘画和音乐那些激情四射的见解 将如何点燃你一生的热爱。 那将是比你现在所过高上三十点的生活 无论在哪个层面和尺度。而每一个点 都让那个爱你的神如坐针毡。 你不想让他那样,像你这样格局宏大的人 每天的失落都自己担当 把妻子的同情心都留给孩子。 而你难道还想让这个神把你的妻子 和那个你在另一个校园注定相遇的女子做个对比不成? 一想到他会对那些交谈做出评判你就黯然伤神 那些你现在习以为常的话题又怎能和那些 你本可以在那里尽情享受、妙趣横生的相提并论。 再想想这个敬爱的神自己会是什么心情 他明知为你妻子安排的第二个候选男士 比你在任何时候都更能博得她的欢心 就算上你最风光的那些日子,且你也已竭尽所能。 在夜晚安睡的时候,你相不相信这样的一个神 徘徊于他云雾笼罩的卧室,被那些个备选方案 搅得心神不宁?你免受煎熬只因为你的无知 但对他来说现实和本来可以之间的差距就是一个现实 甚至在你不复存在之后 在你跑进雪地取晨报而着凉之后 失去了十一年的时间,那个爱你的神 将不得不地一幕又一幕地去反复设想那些场景 除非你倒过来为他设想并以此获得救赎: 他并不比你更加高明,根本就谈不上神,而只是一个友人 也不比你在大学里交的真实的朋友更加亲近 你好几个月都没再给他写信的那个。今晚就坐下来 给他写一写那些你能以主人的身份谈论的生活 你所亲眼目睹的生活,就你所知的一切 是你自己的选择。 |
源头之物 诗之要义在于深知诗之无力。 新冠病毒找不到源头?那么 什么又是这首诗的源头? 我们都有被刻意遮蔽的生活 找不到源头的东西,在幽微中 掌控着世界的各种均衡 光和影的分布,人心的 起伏,生离死别的几率 或者它还决定,今天早上你 打喷嚏的次数 你的...