All right. Try this, Then. Every body I know and care for, And every body Else is going To die in a loneliness I can’t imagine and a pain I don’t know. We had To go on living. We Untangled th
All right. Try this,
Then. Every body
I know and care for,
And every body
Else is going
To die in a loneliness
I can’t imagine and a pain
I don’t know. We had
To go on living. We
Untangled the net, we slit2
The body of this fish
Open from the hinge of the tail
To a place beneath the chin
I wish I could sing of.
I would just as soon we let
The living go on living.
An old poet whom we believe in
Said the same thing, and so
We paused among the dark cattails3 and prayed
For the muskrats4,
For the ripples below their tails,
For the little movements that we knew the crawdads5 were making under water,
For the right-hand wrist of my cousin6 who is a policeman.
We prayed for the game warden’s7 blindness.
We prayed for the road home.
We ate the fish.
There must be something very beautiful in my body,
I am so happy.
好吧,這么着吧。
那么多人,我认识的,
我不认识的,我在乎的,
我不在乎的,都终将
死去。那孤独
我不敢想象,那痛苦
我也未曾知道。只能
这样活下去。我们
解开网,剖开鱼肚,
刀口从鱼尾一直拉到
鱼嘴。我真希望
我能歌唱,如果我能
让生者生。这话,
一位受人敬仰的老诗人也说过。
茫茫香蒲间,
我们停下动作,祈祷。
为水边的麝鼠祈祷,
为它们泛起的涟漪祈祷,
为水中的龙虾祈祷,
为我表弟的右手腕祈祷,
他是一名警察。
我们祈祷管理员不要发现我们,
祈祷回去的路上一切顺利。
我们吃了那鱼。
我体内有了什么美丽的东西吧,
我真开心。
1. northern pike: 白斑狗鱼,一种体形较大的肉食性鱼类,性凶猛,也不太好宰杀。
2. slit: 撕裂,切开。
3. cattail: 香蒲,长在水边的草本植物。
4. muskrat: 麝鼠,北美洲一种半水栖的老鼠。
5. crawdads: 即crayfish,龙虾。
6. cousin: 未查到此处cousin究竟指诗人的哪位亲戚,但正确地翻译为“亲戚”未免离原文太远,且失了诗味,故权且处理为“表弟”。
7. game warden: 渔猎巡警,负责保护野生动物,打击偷猎者。
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