柏桦《记得》英译

记得

  ——与诗人刘太亨忆旧

作者：柏桦

真有什么瞬息浮生吗？

当你走进这座城市，

我已从这座城市逃离。

真有个人写诗没有心？

因为他是一个没有羞耻感的人，

另一个诗人说他是无冷暖的人。

终于有一件事令我颤栗——

老年。但别难为情，年轻时，

我们都叫你亲爱的埃兹拉。

太亨兄“多好的时光呀！”

三十年前的贴面舞

我还记得……

西南医院那间宿舍

深夜的麦乳精加牛奶

我还记得……

 2020年12月21日

Remember

 ～A Recollection with poet Liu Taiheng

by Bai Hua

Is there really an unreal life of transience?

As you were stepping into this city,

I had fled it.

Is there really a man who wrote poetry heartless?

For he’s a man with no sense of shame,

a man of no cold and warmth, as another poet put it.

Eventually what makes me quiver comes up~

Old age. Hope it’s not embarrassing, when young,

We all called you Dear Ezra.

Dear Taiheng, “what a good time!“

Dancing with girls cheek on cheek, thirty years ago

I still remember…

That dorm in the Southwest Hospital

The late night wheat cream with milk

I still remember…

21 December 2020

（English translation by Li Fukang)