Larry Levis：村中流言

我沒和誰說過，雪還是一場場到來。
最初，甚至沒人當回事。
但之後，他們不肯定地說，即使什麽都沒發生，
雪也能說出那事，並毫無遺漏。
村子在青銅夜色中入睡。
在那兒，透入一襲單衣，我曾觸摸
那樣一個鮮活、熱切的身體，我想一定是
某人的靈魂。盡管我弄錯了，
盡管我們分手了，路在落雪間隙中不斷融化著
初春陽光裏，它就是一切，就像春天，
不可撤回，尖刻讓我更銷瘦。終有一天，幾周
之後，我會獨自醒來。我的命運，我猜想，
將便是毫無注定??。饑餓會突然襲來。
早晨將明媚而錯誤。

 

（微笑 譯）

Poems May 5, 2014 Issue
Gossip in the Village
Larry Levis

I told no one, but the snows came, anyway.
They weren’t even serious about it, at first.
Then, they seemed to say, if nothing happened,
Snow could say that, & almost perfectly.
The village slept in the gunmetal of its evening.
And there, through a thin dress once, I touched
A body so alive & eager I thought it must be
Someone else’s soul. And though I was mistaken,
And though we parted, & the roads kept thawing between snows
In the first spring sun, & it was all, like spring,
Irrevocable, irony has made me thinner. Someday, weeks
From now, I will wake alone. My fate, I will think,
Will be to have no fate. I will feel suddenly hungry.
The morning will be bright, & wrong.