潮騷 / Sorrow of Tides

潮騷 吳耀宗	Sorrow of Tides By Gabriel Wu
深入情緒的中心 靠季節太近 宋玉以來 衣襟手腳都長滿潮濕痛苦的隱喻	Deep into the heart of moods And too close to the seasons Ever since that Adonis-lyrist long, long ago Dress, hands and feet – all overgrown         with metaphors damp and painful
我來接受漫天迴旋的秋葉 從楓樹向光的那面開始停止想像 背離那些背離語義隨風出沒的嗚咽 將皮革手套伸進時間裏去 慢慢變薄，變冷，變遠方 卻比堆砌推敲的句子善良許多 神色容易辨認	I greet the autumn leaves whirling in the air But on the maple’s sunny side, imagination stops Leaving behind the whimper that’s left semantics         to follow the wandering winds The leather gloves are thrust into time Slowly turning thinner, and colder, and distant Yet much kinder than those sentences         laboured and piled up As their looks are easy to recognise
日益懂事，像磊落的蘋果 來到清脆響亮的位置 一面完成，一面敗壞 眾草不停翻湧 但仍然讀出海潮 一次次感覺鮭魚的心跳	Gaining wisdom day by day, like an apple ripening Till it’s clear, and crispy, and bright As it’s fulfilling, so it’s decaying The blades of grass are tossing and surging Yet I can spell out their waves – or sea tides rising Again and again, I feel the trout’s heart throbbing (Translated by Allen Zhuang)
[選自吳耀宗：《半存在》，台北：萬卷樓圖書有限公司，2008]
[原詩與英譯文刊於香港城市大學《靈機》(第288期，2011年3月). / Original poem along with English translation was published in Linkage (issue 288, March 2011) at City University of Hong Kong.]