[轉錄]◇ [英詩] Li-Young Lee, Ash, Snow, or Moonlight

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標題: ◇ [英詩] Li-Young Lee, Ash, Snow, or Moonlight
時間: Thu Apr 28 21:19:23 2011

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標題: [轉錄][賞詩] "Ash, Snow, or Moonlight" - Li-Young …
時間: Tue Apr 12 21:52:55 2011

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作者: dieEule (邦邦) 看板: (某隱形看板)
標題: [賞詩] "Ash, Snow, or Moonlight" - Li-Young Lee
時間: Tue Apr 12 21:43:37 2011


Tonight two step out
onto a fourth story porch,
lean against the railing, and look at the moon.
Whether they intend to stay
a while, or only a moment because something awaits,
terrible or tender,
I can't say.
Whether one mutters to the other,
or they stand in silence,
I don't know. And I don't know
if they're here together in a brief repose,
or at the edge
of something incommunicable.
I don't know
if the man shivers now because he suddenly
sees the waste his life is to be in thirty years
on another shore, or because true autumn has begun
this moment of the present year, in a province
whose name evokes in half the world
a feeling of the vastness of the world.
I can tell you there is a war
going on, but don't ask me
to distinguish if it's ash, snow, or moonlight
that creases these people's faces.

Of this man, who each night hums a song and rocks his sons,
and falls asleep before they do, his tune long gone,
his labored breathing finally lulling them,
and this woman, who sweeps by rote or moonlight
the wood floor of their one room,
what news?
They won't stay long to gaze, for the night is cold.
They look neither young nor old,
though something about the way they
stand suggests fatigue.
They will die,
and one before the other to ensure grief.
But I don't know:
is it tenderness
or habit, perhaps a tender habit,
when the woman brushes her cheek
against the man's shoulder?
Do they admire the moon's ascent, or lament its decline?
How often have I seen these two?
Am I stricken by memory or forgetfulness?
Is this the first half of the century or the last?
Is this my father's life or mine?



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