我也想成为诗人--梵妮.豪

但是，我也，像成为诗人
从我的日子里
清除困惑&贫穷
假想之物&毒舌

想要用青春期的语调
再次歌唱
强烈要求向我的敌人复仇，
用清晰&简朴的话语

结束这嘈杂的
对合理解决方法的寻找
终结神秘&痛处这种情况

想要拥有审视自我的
高度，正如我以
宽厚&爱审视别人一样

自由需要
浪费金钱
而我的激情，
起初和最后，
都是为了
诗行狂喜的鞭笞

没有明显的补偿。
But I, too, want to be a poet
to erase from my days
confusion & poverty
fiction & a sharp tongue

To sing again
with the tones of adolescence
demanding vengeance
against my enemies, with words
clear & austere

To end this tumultuous quest
for reasonable solutions
to situations mysterious & sore

To have the height to view
myself as I view others
with lenience & love

To be free of the need
to make a waste of money
when my passion,
first and last,
is for the ecstatic lash
of the poetic line

and no visible recompense
“But I, Too, Want to Be a Poet” by Fanny Howe from Selected Poems of Fanny Howe. © University of California Press Books, 2000