小 满
原作:刘泽球 翻译:欧阳昱
《月令七十二候集解》:“四月中,小满者,物致于此小得盈满。”
雨水潜伏在夜里。而白昼是另一副样子。
阳光如同吸干了水分的、细毫的笔,
恹恹地涂画着夏天碳条般、
脆弱的脉管和胸骨。
你抚弄着楼顶上的盆栽植物,
若有所思地倾听那些灰雀啾啾的交谈。
远处田里的作物卷曲着身子,
麦穗却像饱含仇恨的箭簇的军队。
但这些都与你无关,除了沉甸甸的风
燃烧般穿过。
早晨出门,小区的垃圾桶里
满是谢掉的三角梅,
让你怀疑临街院子的那个人已经远行。
郁郁寡欢的泥瓦匠、油漆工
从对面小食店
望着窗外白晃晃、空寂的街道。
他们中有人或许正念叨着家乡的小满,
念叨着可能的大旱和暴雨。
是啊,是时候了,
该成熟的终归要成熟,
就像这农历的四月,树梢摇晃着
深秋时节似的金色叶子,
天堂般的音乐,在那些狭缝里飘着,
仿佛从草的根部升起。
一日宛如一生一样漫长。
当龙井村越来越深地
陷进午后的阴影和孤独,
你不知道,是重复的日子让你厌倦,
还是厌倦本身让你厌倦,
这吸走了重量的热,这缓慢降低的天空,
这身体里未及吐出的、汹涌的咆哮……
2010年5月20日
注:澳大利亚ABC国家广播电台于2013年10月12日、19日分两期推出当代中国诗歌(英文)节目,共播出9位中国当代诗人的作品,刘泽球的诗作《小满》10月19日在该节目播出,并发表于《国际加缪之子作家杂志》(2013年秋季号,总第10期)
Littlefull
The rainis lurking in the night. The day, though, is a different look.
The sunlight,like a brush of fine hair, its moisture sucked dry,
Is listlesslypainting the vulnerable and carbon-strip-like
Veins andchest-bones of summer
You strokethe pottery plants upstairs,
Listening,pensively, to the chirping conversation of the grey birds.
The crop,in the distant field, is curling up,
While theears of the wheat resemble an army of arrows, filled with hate.
However,none of these have anything to do with you, except the heavy wind
That goespast, burning.
In themorning, when I go out, the rubbish bin in the neighbourhood,
Is fullof the shed three-cornered plum or bougainvillea,
Making youwonder if the guy in the yard by the street has gone away.
The bricklayersand the painters, looking sad,
Are watchingthe bright-white and empty street
From thesmall eatery on the opposite side.
Someone ,among them, may murmur about little full of their home,
Or aboutthe big drought and the rainstorm.
Right, it’stime now,
What isto ripen will grow ripe,
Like thislunar April, with swaying tree crowns
With goldenleaves like in a deep autumn,
With paradisalmusic drifting through those narrow crevices,
Arising,as if from the roots of the grass.
A day aslong as a life.
As the DragonWell Village is
Sinking furtherinto the shadows and solitude of an afternoon,
You areno longer sure if you are weary with repetition of days
Or it isthe weariness itself that makes you weary,
This heatthat has sucked off the weight, this sky that has slowed down and lowered,
And thissurging roar inside your body that has not been spat……
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