人生是在走钢丝(五首)
文/魏彦烈 译/王昌玲
Life is Wire Walking
(Five Poems)
by Wei Yanlie
Tr. by Wang Changling
1、 眉
别提了
这被相思紧锁的眉
像一条扁担
被溢满的泪水压弯
桥断黄昏
河水阻隔了一轮月
对着残破的镜
轻轻地描
轻轻地拉动思念的弓
却射不出搁在心头
一根生锈的箭
1、 The Eyebrow
Don’t ever mention
The eyebrow locked by lovesickness
It’s like a shoulder pole
Bent with an eyeful of tears
Or rather like a broken bridge at sunset
Beneath, a river blocks a full moon
Looking into a broken mirror
You gently pencil your eyebrows
And gently draw the bow of yearning
Yet unable to release
The rusty arrow stuck in your heart
2、 人生是在走钢丝
一条路
被海拔抬起
搁在一座山跟另一座山的肩头
多像一根钢丝
悬空了人生
稍遇风吹草动
就开始摇晃
集中所有的注意
很难平衡
身体的重心
或左或右
一不小心踩空
就掉进一片苍茫
2、 Life is Wire Walking
A road
Raised high
Upon the shoulders of two mountains
Is very much like a wire
Upon which life is hanging
Even the slightest breeze
Swings it
With undivided attention
You still find it challenging to keep balance
You’re shifting your weight
Slightly to the left or to the right
With one careless slip
You’ll drop into the void
3、 人 生
身体弯曲着
呆在子宫
好不容易站起
又被沉重的生活
压弯
有时不得不
一弯再弯
活着
就像一根铁丝
被日子折来折去
折得没有了一点弹性
变得僵硬
死后
平躺在棺材里
3、 Life
The body is bent
In the womb
It takes all it can to stand up
And again the burden of living
Re-bends it
Sometimes it has to
Bend lower and lower
Living
Is like an iron wire
Twisted back and forth by days
Until the wire loses all its flexibility
Until it stiffens
And dies
And lies flat in a coffin
4、 春天骑在牛背上
寒冷像一把箭
斜插在昆仑山的后背
风用力地摇晃
还是拔不出
阳光试图脱掉
披在身上的羊皮袄
几声喷嚏
缩回伸出的手
一朵云
踩着薄薄的冰面
不小心摔倒
被融化的雪水越冲越远
春天骑在牛背上
从西宁出发
沿着唐蕃古道
缓慢地行走
4、Spring Rides an Ox
Cold, like an arrow
Stabs askew in the back of Mt. Kunlun
Wind with all its might, shakes it
Yet unable to pull it out
Sunshine attempts to
Take off my lambskin coat
A few sneezes
Withdraw my out-stretched hands
A cloud
Tiptoes on the thin ice
Slips
And gets washed away by the melting ice flow
Spring riding an ox
Starts its journey from Xi’ning
Along the Tang-Tibet Ancient Road
And snails
5、冬天的草原
冬天在风搀扶下
翻过重重叠叠的山
像一群饥饿的蝗虫
啃光了草原残留的秋色
一场不约而来的雪
毁灭了所有的罪证
苍茫的天空
只剩下一只老鹰
冰冷的翅膀
浮动着几片云朵
夜游的梦
枕着山脊一睡不醒
一条孤独的路
走出夜的围困
却走不出内心的寂寞
5、The Wintry Grassland
Winter assisted by wind
Scales hills upon hills
Like a hungry swarm of locusts
Eating up the autumn hue left in the grassland
An uninvited fall of snow
Destroys all the evidence
The boundless sky
Is empty except for an eagle
Upon whose chilly wings
Float a few cloudlets
Pillowing the ridge
The sleepwalking dream
Is sound asleep
A lonely pathlet
Walks out of the besiegement of night
Yet not out of its inner loneliness
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