凱蒂·萊曼詩歌小輯

        楊宗澤   編譯

Selected Poems of Katie Lehman

Compiledand translated by Yang Zongze

      雨中的馬

  ——愛爾蘭戈爾韋郡凱爾莫爾修道院

當那輛方形黑窗的白色旅游巴士

在路旁停下時，我們早已離開

修剪整齊的樹籬，藏身于荊棘叢中，

彎腰采摘飽滿的黑莓。“他們就愛看一個修女

和一個穿著紅色工裝褲的年輕女孩。” 她說。

要是有人走近，她會佯裝沒聽見，

讓我來搭話，我在兩人中更為安靜。

這意味著什么呢——

如今她已離去，而田野依舊。

此刻，她曾飼養(yǎng)夏洛萊牛的地方，馬兒在吃草。

在泥濘的月份里，土地被四足獸蹄踏翻，

經(jīng)受每一場露水與寒霜。

此刻，她一定在農(nóng)場的廚房里，在餐桌旁，

在那把破舊的椅子邊，

或者在康尼馬拉小馬斑駁的灰毛里，

肌肉抽搐，仿佛被一只無形的手觸碰——

它們擁有構(gòu)造精巧卻柔韌的身軀，

額發(fā)被來自大西洋的風吹拂到一邊。

她會在那兒，而不是在小路盡頭的墓地里，

在那座置于閃亮巖石間的十字架下。

不在哥特式教堂尖頂指向天空的

山墻那遙遠而靜止的一端，

而是在教堂花窗透出的斑駁光影里，

在布滿灰塵的角落中，飄蕩。

沿著飛扶壁的路徑，

我仿佛看見她站在我身旁，

在一棵大樹寬闊的樹冠下。

那是十月的一個落葉飄零的午后，

我們在樹下避雨。

雨剛下了幾分鐘就停了，

我們從掛滿水珠的濕樹籬中走出。

“好了，” 她說，

然后我們繼續(xù)做下一件事。

有那么一陣子，

我們會忘卻生命的短暫與無常。

雨水順著我們肥大的雨衣流淌而下，

我們靜靜地并肩而立，注視著

排列一起的惠靈頓長靴，

兩個身影，宛如等待雨停的馬匹。

    Now Horses

      Kylemore Abbey, Co. Galway, Ireland

When the white tour bus with square black windows

stops along the one-lane road, we are far beyond the

coiffed hedges, hidden in the brambles, our backs

bent over thick blackberries. “They like to see a nun

and a young girl in red overalls,” she says. If someone

approaches, she’ll pretend she doesn’t hear, let me

talk, I the quieter one of the two. What does it mean—

now that she is gone, and the fields have carried on.

Now horses graze where she had kept her Charolais.

The earth hoof-tilled in the muddy months by four-

legged beasts, through each dew and each frost.

She must be in the farm kitchen, near the table,

near the worn-down chair, or in the gray dappled

coats of the Connemara ponies, muscles twitching

as if touched by a hand that is not there—

an architectured but pliant anatomy they inhabit,

forelocks brushed aside in the Atlantic air. There

she would be and not down the lane in the cemetery

under a cross placed in sparkling rocks. Not at

the far static end of the skyward-pointing gables

of the Gothic chapel but in the mottled light of its

windowed tracery, adrift in the angled corners cobbed

with dust, along the path of its flying buttresses to

where I think of her standing beside me under a

tree’s wide canopy, sheltering us froman October

downpour one leaf-worn afternoon. But as soon

as it begins it will stop, and we’ll emerge from wet

hedgerows heavy with light. “Now then,” she’ll

say, and we’ll move on to the next thing. Fora time,

we’ll forget life’s brevity, the narrow streams that

ran down our oversized raincoats while side by

side in stillness we watched, Wellingtons lined up,

two figures like horses waiting out the rain.

      厄洛斯

我逃離他，就像我逃離

我少女時代走過的小徑，

飛速跑過所有古老的樹木；

它們矗立著，證明

我曾在那里——

要是我抬頭，他肯定會消失，

仿佛在空無一人的森林里

撞見一頭雄鹿。

要是我開口，我的聲音就是青草。

我可以活著，

卻不是去愛，

但我又能避開什么樣的悲傷？

那個我少女時

唯一交談過的男孩？——斯蒂芬——

我已不是七歲，盡管我遲緩的

女性意識是從那里開始的。

*厄洛斯：希臘神話中的愛神，是愛與欲望的象征。他被描繪為一個手持弓箭的美少年，其射出的箭能讓凡人或神靈陷入愛情。在羅馬神話中，他對應的神是丘比特。

——譯者注。

    Eros

I run from him like I ran

the paths of my girlhood,

whipping past all the old trees

who stand for proof

that I was there—

if I look up, he is sure

to vanish

as if stumbling upon a buck

in the wholly empty forest.

If I speak my voice is grass.

I could live and not

love, but what grief would I

spare? The only boy I spoke to

as a girl?—Stephen—

I am not seven, although my slow

womanhood races there.

      被召回

   甜蜜的時光在此消逝。

      ——艾米莉·狄金森（1830年12月10日—1886年5月15日）

飄著白色絲帶的白色棺材——

被從家園的后門抬出，

繞過她那繁花似錦的花園，沿著

一條草叢的小徑，穿過潮濕的谷倉，

穿過一片黃色毛茛花田。

午后漸逝，傍晚的光線

掠過她貼有玫瑰花紋紙的墻壁，她的

緋紅色佩斯利披肩。在一個世界

不斷下沉，她床上方的空氣

靜止了。還有奧斯汀, 拉維尼亞

和蘇珊在那里——遲開的水仙

和準時綻放的五月花，一片寂靜。那么，

她的身形究竟是如何升起的呢？漸漸暗淡的喧囂，

一盞油燈的光，濕布敷在她的額頭，

一把柔軟的刷子，一把金屬梳子——

她那未曾改變的栗色頭發(fā)。蘇珊為她

身著白衣的身體凈身——脖子上

戴著藍色紫羅蘭和一朵粉色的杓蘭

那曾是她呼吸之要害所在。文妮在她手邊

放了兩株天芥菜。麻雀飛來，散落在松樹上——

銀蓮花，還有大膽的知更鳥，會撲騰著翅膀

與她同行——在一個春末夏初的日子里，

在一片野生紫羅蘭的視野里，她與她

綠樹成蔭的墳墓之間，一陣生命的騷動——

那是一種久違的勇氣……

  Called Back

         Emily Dickinson,December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886

         Sweet hours have perished here.

                       —Emily Dickinson

The white coffin, the whiteribbon—

carried out the Homestead’s back door

      aroundher flowering garden, along

a spring grass footpath throughthe damp barn

      througha field of yellow buttercups.

After the afternoon fell and anevening beam

trod across her rose paperedwall, her

      blushplum paisley stole. After a world

dropped down and down and an airabove her

      bedstood still. And Austin and Lavinia

and Susan there—and the late daffodils and

the punctual may-flowers, silent.Just how then

      didher shape rise? In the dimming bustle

by an oil-lit lamp, wet cloth onher brow,

      alight-bristled brush, a metal comb—

her unchanged chestnut hair. Suewashing

her body robed in white—blue violets and

      onepink cypripedium on her neck

where breath had been. Vinnieplacing two

      heliotropesnear her hand. Sparrows

next will follow, a scattering ofpine—an

anemone, and robins, bold andfluttering, will

      withher go—on an almost-summer day—

a wild violet lens, a vital stirbetween her and her

      bough-linedgrave—an old bravery then—

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【作者簡介】凱蒂·萊曼：美國當代女詩人，1999年獲得圣母大學藝術(shù)碩士學位，在校讀書期間曾獲1998年度“比利·邁赫學院美國詩人獎”。2004年至2010年，凱蒂· 萊曼擔任圣母大學出版社助理編輯，負責學術(shù)與創(chuàng)意類作品的編輯工作，其中包括兩年一度的“歐內(nèi)斯特·桑德恩詩歌獎”相關(guān)事務。已經(jīng)出版的詩集有：《艾米莉·狄金森的詞匯表》（多斯·馬德雷斯出版社，2023）。

[About the author]KATIE LEHMAN , a contemporary American poetess, received an MFA from the University of Notre Dame in 1999,where she was awarded the 1998 Billy Maich Academy of American Poets Prize.From 2004 to 2010 Lehman was assistant editor at the University of Notre DamePress, editing scholarly and creative work, including the biennial Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize. Her poetrycollection Emily Dickinson’s Lexicon was published by Dos Madres Press in 2023.

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【譯者簡介】楊宗澤 (1953 —    )筆名:瘦路，山東平度人,畢業(yè)于山東師范大學外文系英美語言文學專業(yè)，中學退休教師，無黨派，中國作家協(xié)會會員，詩人，翻譯家，后意象主義詩歌流派代表性詩人之一。1999年12月被美國世界作家藝術(shù)家協(xié)會評選為1999年度最佳翻譯家，2024年12月被《中國當代詩歌導讀》編委會授予第七屆詩歌獎。已有詩集《浪漫季節(jié)》、《沉浮》和詩歌翻譯集《賀敬之短詩選》、《吉狄馬加詩選》、《桑恒昌短詩選》、《伊曼紐爾?馬休詩選》等33種著作在國內(nèi)外出版。楊宗澤的詩關(guān)注人生和人性、關(guān)注現(xiàn)實和社會問題、關(guān)注底層社會的生存狀態(tài)。

[About the translator] YangZongze (1953 —   ), his pen name: Narrow Path; was born in Pingdu City,Shandong Province; graduated from English Language and Literature Department ofShandong Normal University; retired middle school teacher; nonparty; poet,poetry translator, one of the representative poets of the post-Imagist poetryschool. In December 1999, he was selected as the Best Translator of 1999 by theAmerican Society of World Writers and Artists. In December 2024, he was awardedthe title of excellent poet of the Seventh Poetry Award by the editorial boardof the Guide for Reading of Chinese Contemporary Poetry. Thirty-two books ofhis have been published at home and abroad, including a collection of poems titledMy Romantic Season and Winter Without Snow，and collections of translatedpoems titled Selected Poems of HeJingzhi, Selected Poems of Jidi Majia, Selected Poems of Sang Hengchang and Selected Poems of Emmanuel MAHIEU.

Yang Zongze's poetry focuses onlife and human nature, realistic society and important societal issues as wellas the living conditions of the bottom society.