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山边
我在山边遇见一个小孩，
一个会哭会笑的小孩！
泪珠才从他圣洁的双颊滚过,
甜美的花朵就在他脸上绽开。
最纯洁的是这小孩晶莹的眼泪，
说最美也只这未装饰的脸才配！
造物者的意旨我似乎已懂，
为这无邪的天真我深深感动。
我深情地注视着他许久许久，
温暖的慰藉流遍在我心头。
感激的泪水迷蒙了我的双眼，
再看时，小孩的踪影已不见！
AT THE MOUNTAINSIDE
I
met a little boy at a mountainside
who
was quick to laugh and cry
tears had hardly
rolled down his cheeks
when
a sweet smile bloomed at his mouth
there was
nothing purer than his sparkling tears
nothing more
beautiful than his angelic face
I
understood the intention of the Creator
and
was moved by the child’s innocence
I
stared at him with a deep feeling
warmth flooded
my heart
tears of
gratitude welled in my eyes
when
I looked again he was gone
2
醉汉
把短短的直巷
走成一条
曲折
回荡的
万里愁肠
左一脚
十年
右一脚
十年
母亲啊
我正努力
向您
走
来
THE
HOMESICK DRUNK
He
has walked a short alley
into
a tortuous
writhing
intestine
of
ten thousand miles
One
step left
ten
years
one
step right
ten
years
O
mother
I
am struggling
toward
you
3
桥
隔著岸
紧密相握
我们根本不知道
也不在乎
是谁
先伸出了
手
BRIDGE
clasped
together
intimate and
tight
we
really don’t know
nor
care
who
was the first
to
extend
a
hand
4
非洲小孩
一个大得出奇的
胃
日日夜夜
在他鼓起的腹内
蠕吸著
吸走了
犹未绽开的笑容
吸走了
滋润母亲心灵的泪水
吸走了
干皱皮下仅有的一点点肉
终于吸起
他眼睛的漠然
以及张开的嘴里
我们以为无声
其实是超音域的
一个
惨绝人寰的呼叫
AFRICAN BOY
Wriggles day and
night
a
monstrous stomach
in
the bloating belly
Sucking
up
the
unblossomed laughter
sucking
up
the
teardrops that moisten a mother's heart
sucking
up
the meager
flesh under his wrinkled skin
sucking
up
the
indifference in his eyes
and
eventually sucking up
from
his open mouth a ghastly cry
which we take
for soundless
but
is in fact at a pitch
well
beyond the limit
of
our comprehension
5
越战纪念碑
一截大理石墙
二十六个字母
便把这么多年青的名字
嵌入历史
万人冢中
一个踽踽独行的老妪
终於找到了
她的爱子
此刻她正紧闭双眼
用颤悠悠的手指
沿著他冰冷的额头
找那致命的伤口
VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL
A
block of marble
and
twenty six letters of the alphabet
etch
so many young names
onto
history
Wandering
alone
amid
the mass grave
an
old woman has at last found
her
only child
and
with her eyes tightly shut
her
trembling fingers now feel
for
the mortal wound
on
his ice-cold forehead
6
生与死之歌
──给濒死的索马利亚小孩
在断气之前
他只希望
能最后一次
吹胀
垂在他母亲胸前
那两个干瘪的
气球
让它们飞上
五彩缤纷的天空
庆祝他的生日
庆祝他的死日
SONG
OF BIRTH AND DEATH
--------for a dying Somali
child
he
wants to blow up with his last breath
the
collapsing balloons
that
hang listlessly
from
his mother’s chest
and
watch them soar
high
into the sky
on
this birthday of his
on
this deathday of his
7
黄河
溯
挟泥沙而来的
滚滚浊流
你会找到
地理书上说
青海巴颜喀喇山
但根据历史书上
血迹斑斑的记载
这千年难得一清的河
其实源自
亿万个
苦难泛滥
人类深沉的
眼穴
YELLOW
RIVER
If
you trace up the turbid current, you will find
as
any geography book can tell you
the
Kunlun Mountains in Qinghai
Yet
according to history’s bloody accounts
this
river
which turns
clear at most
once
in a thousand years
has
its origin in millions of eye sockets
of
suffering human beings
8
鸟笼
打开
鸟笼的
门
让鸟飞
走
把自由
还给
鸟
笼
BIRD CAGE
open
the
cage
let
the bird fly
away
give
freedom
back
to
the
bird
cage
9
秋窗
进入中年的妻
这些日子
总爱站在窗前梳妆
有如它是一面镜子
洗尽铅华的脸
淡云薄施
却雍容大方
如镜中
成熟的风景
AUTUMN WINDOW
Now
that she is middle-aged, my wife
likes to stand
before the window
and
comb her hair
Her
only makeup a trace of cloud
the
landscape of a graceful
poised
maturity
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