住在明尼苏达州的华裔诗友LAKE，中英文造诣都很高，我们常在一个叫<北美枫〉的网站上交流。几年前她在读了我的英文诗集AUTUMN WINDOW《秋窗》后，曾写了两个版本的<秋窗>诗。今天突然想起,就把它们找出来，放在资料库里保存,同时也让大家欣赏欣赏她的佳作：

AUTUMN WINDOW (two versions) by LAKE

<秋窗> (两个版本), LAKE 作

Autumn Window (version 1)

          For William Marr    

Here on the vast prairies,
Amid ten-thousand lakes -
Your book, your autograph –
In the summer morning.

I look from my window
Into your window of autumn
In the fragrant wind softer
Than that of Chicago.

The white picture frame
Over the black backdrop.
The slender lady turns sideways,
Whose eyes a bright window.

I think of you at work –
Of war, an old woman
Who lost her only child;
Of bird, the freedom to the cage.

Your poems give help to
The natural disasters.
All proceeds like rivulets
Flowing into the ocean.

Seasons revolving in cycles.
When red maple leaves fall
I open the window once again
To read your autumnal profusion.


Autumn Window  (version 2)

   for William Marr    

Here on the top of the hill,
over the rose dale –
your book, my companion –
in the cool morning.

I look from my window
into your autumn window
in the fragrant wind, softer
than that of Chicago.

Over the black backdrop
the white picture frame
is suffused with balmy softness,
those tender eyes -
a window into wisdom.

I think of you at work –
of war, an old woman
who lost her only child;
of freedom, a bird
which leaves its cage.

Your every line,
every thought, like rivulets
from all directions
flowing into the sea.

Flowers are now in full bloom.
When red maple leaves fall
I'll open the window once more
to read this mellow autumn.

AUTUMN WINDOW, poems by William Marr

ARBOR HILL PRESS , Chicago，1995 (1st ed.);1996 (2nd ed.)

非马英文诗集《秋窗》，芝加哥, 1995年初版, 1996年再版

原载:  北美枫  http://yizitong.com/viewtopic.php?t=15457