江南 （10首）

空也靜 作
王昌玲 譯
Jiangnan (10 poems)
Written by Kongyejing
Tr. by Wang Changling

1.七月

陽光搬不動
一片聚集的云朵
淫雨
死皮賴臉地
糾纏著七月的黃昏
撒一張大網
在越漲越高的池塘里
打撈
一輪月

1. July

Sunshine cannot move
A wide stretch of gathering clouds
Excessive rains
Shamelessly
Harass the dusk of July
Casting a huge net
Into the overflowing pond
To salvage
A moon


2江南

雷聲輪番轟炸
閃電捅破夜的窗紙
一場雨
從預報里現身
淹過七月的肚臍眼
村莊如一葉小船
在一滴淚里
擱淺

2. Jiangnan

Thunder blasts again and again
Lightning pierces the window paper of night
A heavy rain
Shows up as forecasted
And reaches the navel of July
The village is like a small rowboat
Stranded
Within a tear

3烏鴉

穿一身綢緞
在孔雀夠不著的枝頭
落腳
被街頭風言風語
越抹越黑
仿佛一塊飛行的木炭
體內點燃著
一盞燈

3. A Crow

A crow in silks and satins
Upon the high twig beyond the peacock’s reach
Perches
And gets blackened
By groundless gossips on the street
As if a flying piece of charcoal
With a lamp burning
Within

4大暑

故鄉頂一頭霧
站在齊腰的水中
如一葉荷
倔犟地舉起一片天空
一個破草帽
遮住陽光
漏掉了
一場又一場雨

4. Great Heat

Veiled in mist, my home village
Stands in the water up to the waist
Like a lotus leaf
Perversely holding up a stretch of sky
A worn-out straw hat
Shelters sunshine
And lets one rain after another
Seep through


5夏夜

夕陽摁下開關
思念如烏云
塞滿了整個夜晚
人一哭
老天也跟著哭
淚水與雨水
決口了一條堤
往事摁下葫蘆浮起瓢
夢泥菩薩過河
自身難保

5. Summer Night

As the setting sun pushes on the switch
Longing like dark clouds
Stuffs the entire night
People shed tears
And the sky follows suit
Tears and water
Breach a levee
The moment one past event sinks
Another bobs up
The clay Buddha crossing the river
Is unsafe


6香火

他們建造寺院
請一尊佛
大把大把的香火錢
塞進功德箱
變成大魚大肉
被一口一口吃掉
佛連一口湯
都喝不上

6. The Burning Incense

They have built a fane
And invited a figure of Buddha
Handfuls of money for incense
Stuffed into the Merit Box
Are exchanged for abundant fish and meat
And devoured
Buddha drinks
Not even a mouthful of broth


7折騰

臨街的服裝店
沒開幾天
一轉眼
改頭換面
成了牛肉面館
好景不長
又搖身一變
成為小診所
專治疑難雜癥

7. Z-Turns

The street front clothing store
Hasn’t been open for long
Before it turns into
A beef noodles restaurant
That manages to survive several months
And then, all of a sudden transforms itself into
A clinic that claims to cure
All difficult and complicated diseases


8下午

整天下午
風都搓洗著幾片白云
一些樹踮起腳尖
朝天上長
另一些樹一頭軋進水里
一個勁地往下鉆
一些樹是另一些樹
扎下的根
我坐在池塘邊
等一條魚
上鉤

8. The Afternoon

For the whole afternoon
The wind has been hand-laundering a few cloudlets
Some trees standing on tiptoes
Grow upward
Some other trees plunge into the water
Rooting deeper and deeper downward
Some trees are the roots
Of other trees
I squat by a pond
Waiting for a fish
To take the bait


9拜佛

頭磕了
香火也上了
轉動經桶
唵嘛呢叭咪吽
念了一遍又一遍
佛呀
我許下的愿呢

9. Pray to Buddha for Help

I’ve kowtowed
I’ve burned incense
I’ve turned the prayer wheel
Murmuring myriad times
O? Ma?i Padme Hū?
Oh, Buddha
What’s happened to the wish I’ve made?


10入伏

太陽如一團紅毛線
從頭頂滾過
大地的鍋蓋上
奔跑著一群螞蟻
蟬鳴擰干
體內殘留的水分
天空火氣越來越大
動不動吊起嗓門
吼上幾下
雨水淹沒了人間的不平

10. Beginning of Dog Days

The sun is like a red ball of knitting wool
That rolls overhead
Upon the pot cover of the earth
Swarms an army of ants
The cicada’s chirrup wrings dry
The remaining water within its body
The sky getting increasingly fiery
Frequently roars
At the top of its lungs
And then rain water drowns all the injustice in the human world



空也靜：原名魏彥烈，青海省作協會員。出版詩集《格桑花開》、《草原情歌》、《仰望昆侖》、《風舞經幡》、漢英雙語《輪回》等多部。獲昆侖文藝獎，唐蕃古道文學獎，詩歌春晚“全國十佳詩人”稱號。詩觀：快樂生活，安靜寫詩。

王昌玲 七星譯詩社之天璇星，任職于安徽師范大學外國語學院，熱愛中英文詩歌創作與翻譯。發表漢語雜文英譯數篇，出版合譯著數部；兩次獲得韓素音翻譯大賽漢譯英之優秀獎(2009, 2018)。座右銘: 我譯，故我在。譯詩發表于《人民日報海外版》，《詩殿堂》等，原創詩歌發表于《譯原電子雜志》及《長江詩歌》等。詩，是靈魂的救贖。

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