试译当小小的你跌跌撞撞进入我

我张开四肢趴在床上，像一块大游戏毯：

腹部向下，双腿大开。这是冬天。

平常的日子。你的父亲在地板上摆动双脚。

楼上孩子们在咯咯作响的轮子上

来回拖东西。我是空的，被任何

膨胀的东西吹过，旋转，断裂

夜复一夜，在那房间。你必定寻找过

感觉好像永恒的事物，想要成为

在我们之间如火往返传递的东西

想要重力，渴求渴望，死亡

坠入肉体，缺失，短暂的生存狂喜。

从什么梦幻的世界挣脱？

什么飞升----什么悲哀----当你让意志

对准像我在床单上活生生的肉体？

 

（林木译）

 

When Your Small Form Tumbled into Me   

By Tracy K. Smith

 

I lay sprawled like a big-game rug across the bed:                

Belly down, legs wishbone-wide. It was winter.                       

Workaday. Your father swung his feet to the floor.                

The kids upstairs dragged something back and forth             

On shrieking wheels. I was empty, blown-through              

By whatever swells, swirling, and then breaks                       

Night after night upon that room. You must have watched     

For what felt like forever, wanting to be                                   

What we passed back and forth between us like fire.            

Wanting weight, desiring desire, dying                                   

To descend into flesh, fault, the brief ecstasy of being.           

From what dream of world did you wriggle free?                   

What soared—and what grieved—when you aimed your will 

At the yes of my body alive like that on the sheets?        

 

所有跟帖： 

• Dying to 不是死亡的意思，是渴望的意思 -rancho2008- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2016 postreply 00:09:47

• 谢谢rancho指正。 请问swirling, and then breaks 的主语是something吗？ -LinMu- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2016 postreply 05:50:15

• swirling, and then breaks 的主语不是something，是whatever，该句语法分析 -rancho2008- ♀ (1854 bytes) () 09/18/2016 postreply 11:52:16

• 谢谢rancho，这么认真，学习了。swirling 换成swirls似乎也可以， -LinMu- ♂ (115 bytes) () 09/18/2016 postreply 19:30:21

• 这首诗歌的暗喻之妙在于一般人想不到也不会那么想 -yuanxiang- ♂ (104 bytes) () 09/19/2016 postreply 18:17:21

• 100%读第一次就明白是关于 -小贝壳weed- ♀ (159 bytes) () 09/19/2016 postreply 19:24:06