Today by Billy Collins

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

今天

文/比利·柯林斯   译/黎历

如果真有如此完美的一个春季里的日子
阵阵吹拂的温暖微风使人精神振奋

使你想敞开
房子里所有的窗扉

and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies

想解开金丝雀笼子门上的锁
的确  从它小边框撕开一扇小门

那一天 花园凉爽

牡丹沿青砖小径绽放

seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking

a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,

releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage

如被蚀刻于阳光
使你觉得像举起锤子

敲击客厅茶几上

的玻璃镇纸

像从大雪覆盖的村舍里

解救居民

so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting

into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.