三首英文诗，DIARY（日记），AFTER THE STORM (风暴后）及 BEDTIME STORY (床边故事）发表于 DuPage Valley Review《杜佩吉谷期刊》2019年刊， 2019.12

 

〈日记〉

 

1

 

当年的一笔

流水账

竟从黑暗的冬夜深处

淙淙涓涓涌出

 

鸟语花香的清溪傍

一只招引的小手

正等着相牵

一同走进

一片几乎被遗忘了的

风景

 

 

2

 

一只最忠实的

宠物

永远不会听厌

你那一笔又一笔

平淡无聊的流水账

更不会对从你心头滔滔涌出的

那些赤裸的秘密

脸红甚至大惊小怪

 

当然你也别想

它会感动得把温暖的背

努努向你靠拢

或用淌着口水的舌头

啧啧赞叹

 

 

DIARY

 

1

 

in the deep of a winter night

the running account

of a bygone era

suddenly gushes forth

trickling and gurgling

 

on the bank of a clear stream

among singing birds and blooming flowers

a little hand is luring me

to join up and walk together

into the almost forgotten

landscape

 

 2

 

like the most loyal pet

it would never get tired

of your dull

daily running accounts

nor blush nor be shocked

at the naked secrets

pouring out endlessly

from your heart

 

by the same token

neither can you expect

its warm back pressed against you

nor a praise 

from its drooling tongue

 

 

〈风暴后〉

 

此刻一切都过去了

大海

宁静如慈祥的老祖父

眯着眼看一只小海鸥

在阳光里翱翔

用白翅

轻拂天空蔚蓝的脸

 

那麽蓝

几乎没有人记得

那些摇撼捶打

吼叫狂啸

 

AFTER THE STORM

 

now that it's over   

the sea  

calm like a kind old grandfather

squints at a little sea gull

flying leisurely in the sun

brushing its white wings

against the blue cheeks of the sky

 

so blue that no one seems to remember

why all the shouting howling

pounding and beating

 

 

〈床边故事〉

 

所有引人的故事

都磨难重重

一到了

「他们从此过着

快乐的生活」

我们便知道

故事到此结束

接下去

是哈欠连连

催赶驮负公主王子的白马

在眼皮阖起

城门紧闭之前

进入梦乡

 

 

BEDTIME STORY

 

all attractive stories

are full of sufferings

 

when it comes to

they live happily ever after

we know that's the end of the story

 

what comes next is an endless chain of yawning

hurrying the white horses that carry the princess and the prince

to enter dreamland

before the eyelids

and the castle gate

are completely shut