一颗小牙--托马斯.勒克斯

你的婴儿长了一颗牙齿，然后两颗，
四颗，五颗，然后她想直接
从骨头上啃些肉。

牙长全了：她会学几个词，
她会爱上白痴，傻瓜，花言巧语的
走在去监狱路上的人。而你，

你的妻子，变老了，变得邋遢，没有什么
好后悔的。你干了，你爱了，你的脚
酸痛。黄昏时分。你的女儿是高大的。
Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It’s all

over: she’ll learn some words, she’ll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,

your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing. You did, you loved, your feet
are sore. It’s dusk. Your daughter’s tall.
“A Little Tooth” by Thomas Lux from The Drowned River. © Houghton Mifflin, 1997