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毕晓普：《奥尔良码头》

（致玛格丽特·米勒）

每一条驳船都轻易地

在河面上犁开一条惊心的浪迹，

灰白的亮点，一团硕大的橡树叶

在灰暗的水面上；

而在它后面的那些真实的树叶漂浮着

沉入大海。

水银状叶脉随着硕大的叶片，

和涟漪，冲向

码头的两岸，在堤面上

抹除自己，

就象那些流星从天空

温婉地走向尽头。

而一簇簇小树叶，真实的树叶，追逐着它们，

漂流着

羞涩地隐退，沉入

消溶的海水。

我们像石头一样静静站立，注视

树叶和涟漪

当光和不安的流水

交谈着。

“如果我们所见的事物将我们部分地忘记“

我想对你说

“就像它轻易地忘却自己 —— 但为了生存

我们不能抹除石化的叶脉痕迹。”

翻译：丛文

Elizabeth Bishop

Quai d’Orléans

For Margaret Miller

Each barge on the river easily tows

a mighty wake,

a giant oak-leaf of gray lights

on duller gray;

and behind it real leaves are floating by,

down to the sea.

Mercury-veins on the giant leaves,

the ripples, make

for the sides of the quai, to extinguish themselves

against the walls

as softly as falling-stars come to their ends

at a point in the sky.

And throngs of small leaves, real leaves, trailing them,

go drifting by

to disappear as modestly, down the sea’s

dissolving halls.

We stand as still as stones to watch

the leaves and ripples

while light and nervous water hold

their interview.

“If what we see could forget us half as easily,”

I want to tell you,

“as it does itself—but for life we’ll not be rid

of the leaves’ fossils.”

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