[英]卡罗尔·安·达菲
译/ 得一望二
在这宽阔的夜晚另一边，某处，
距离，隔开你我。我在想着你。
这房间在转动，缓慢地躲开月亮。
这令人欢愉的。或者，是否该将这一行划掉
说：这悲伤的？以众多的时态之一，我唱着
一首难以成调的欲望之歌，而你无法听见。
啦、啦啦、啦。明白么？我闭上眼睛，
想象我必须穿越怎样的黑暗山峦
才能触及你。因我爱着你，而这是
此刻的感觉，或者此刻在词语中的感觉。
Words, Wide Night
Carol Ann Duffy
Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us. I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say
it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing
an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear.
La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine
the dark hills I would have to cross
to reach you. For I am in love with you and this
is what it is like or what it is like in words.
From The Other Country (1990)
