Convalescing

I spend the days deciding
on a commemorative poem.
Not,luckily,an epitaph.
A quiet poem
to establish the  fact of me.
As one of the incidental faces
in those stone processions.
Carefully done.
Not claiming that I was
at any of the great victories.
But that I volunteered.

                              -------Jack Gilbert
作者簡介：Jack Gilbert won the 2005 National Book Critics Award for poetry for 'Refusing Heaven. '
（康複
我花了幾天的時間
在一首紀念的詩詞上。
慶幸，不是一闋墓誌銘。
一首平靜的詩
建成事實上的我。
好似附在
這些排列的石頭隊列中
眾多麵孔裏的一張臉。
精心完成。
沒有宣稱我曾是
任何了不起的成功者。
不過這是我的自願。）

[bymyheart]

回複南山鬆的評論:
我喜歡這首短詩。共賞

[南山鬆]

樸實的文字卻讓人回味。