今年夏天去西雅圖旅行，第一次近觀 Mt. Rainier ，著實為它的大氣壯美所傾倒。
回來後我先生用他拍的視頻和照片做了一個slide show。當我看到美語壇“E詩配畫”的活動號召後，便決定朗誦一首關於雷尼爾雪山的英文詩，配上音樂視頻秀，來支持這次活動。
詩是我從網上找來的，搜了幾首後，最後選了這首比較短小的，也朗朗上口。
題目叫Open Secret，作者是在從英國移民到美國的詩人Denise Levortov （1923–1997)。Ms. Levortov 生命的最後十年裏常住在華盛頓州，寫下了許多描寫Pacific Northwest 迤邐風光的詩作。
很慚愧，我平時很少讀詩，但對中英文的朗誦藝術一直懷有興趣。嚐試著錄下這首英文短詩，希望大家喜歡！
Open Secret
by Denise Levertov
Perhaps one day I shall let myself
approach the mountain—
hear the streams which must flow down it,
lie in a flowering meadow, even
touch my hand to the snow.
Perhaps not. I have no longing to do so.
I have visited other mountain heights.
This one is not, I think, to be known
by close scrutiny, by touch of foot or hand
or entire outstretched body; not by any
familiarity of behavior, any acquaintance
with its geology or the scarring roads
humans have carved in its flanks.
This mountain’s power
lies in the open secret of its remote
apparition, silvery low-relief
coming and going moonlike at the horizon,
always loftier, lonelier, than I ever remember.
approach the mountain—
hear the streams which must flow down it,
lie in a flowering meadow, even
touch my hand to the snow.
Perhaps not. I have no longing to do so.
I have visited other mountain heights.
This one is not, I think, to be known
by close scrutiny, by touch of foot or hand
or entire outstretched body; not by any
familiarity of behavior, any acquaintance
with its geology or the scarring roads
humans have carved in its flanks.
This mountain’s power
lies in the open secret of its remote
apparition, silvery low-relief
coming and going moonlike at the horizon,
always loftier, lonelier, than I ever remember.
