多年之後

今天，在遠處我看著你

走開，悄無聲息

冰川閃光的臉

滑入大海。在坎伯蘭茲

一棵古老的橡樹倒下，隻剩

一捧樹葉，一位老婦人

在撒穀粒喂雞，抬頭

看了一會兒。在星係的

另一邊，一顆三十五倍於我們

太陽的星球爆炸

並消失，在天文學家的視網漠上

留下一個小綠斑

當他站在我心靈巨大敞開的

圓屋頂上，無人相告。

After Years by Ted Kooser 

Today, from a distance, I saw you

walking away, and without a sound

the glittering face of a glacier

slid into the sea. An ancient oak

fell in the Cumberlands, holding only

a handful of leaves, and an old woman

scattering corn to her chickens looked up

for an instant. At the other side

of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times

the size of our own sun exploded

and vanished, leaving a small green spot

on the astronomer's retina

as he stood on the great open dome

of my heart with no one to tell.