路易斯-格丽克：十字路口

十字路口

我的身体，既然我们不会同行很久了
我开始觉得对你有了一种新的柔情，
非常生涩，不熟悉
像我记得的我年轻时的爱——

从它的目标来看那爱常常愚蠢
可从不在它的选择，它的强烈
事先已经要求太多，太多不能被允诺的—

我的灵魂曾那么可怕，那么暴烈：
原谅它的残暴：
仿佛是那灵魂，我的手小心地在你身上移动，

不是希望去侵犯
而是渴望，最终，实现了以表达作为实质：

不是尘世我将怀念
是你我将怀念。


Crossroads

Louise Glück

My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer
I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,
like what I remember of love when I was young –
love that was so often foolish in its objectives
but never in its choices, its intensities
Too much demanded in advance, too much that could not be promised –
My soul has been so fearful, so violent;
forgive its brutality.
As though it were that soul, my hand moves over you cautiously,
not wishing to give offense
but eager, finally, to achieve expression as substance:
it is not the earth I will miss,
it is you I will miss.

From A Village Life, by Louise Glück


这首诗选自格丽克2009年的诗集《一个乡村生活》。这本最近的诗集是诗人与一生的和解之诗。

 

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