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榮光煥獎金學者
--Ted Hughes
是在哪看到的，河岸街嗎？一攤
報章雜誌的新聞照片中
不知何故我注意到
一張那年度的
榮光煥獎金得主合照。即將抵達——
或剛來英國不久
妳也側身其中嗎？我端詳著照片
沒看得太仔細，思忖著
我可能會邂逅其中哪個人
還記得我當時的念頭。不是
妳的臉孔。不用說我特別注意
女孩子們。或許我注意到妳
或許我曾打量過妳，覺得是真似幻
注意到妳的長髮，大波浪捲——
妳半遮面的維若妮卡．蕾克式瀏海。不是它遮掩著什麼
而是它突顯出的金髮。還有妳的露齒而笑
妳用誇張的美國式
笑容面對相機以及評審們、路人們、大驚小怪的人們
接下來怎樣我忘記了。然而我記得
那張照片：「榮光煥發的學者們」
他們還拖帶著行李嗎? 大概不可能
他們是團體一起來的嗎? 我記得是這樣沒錯
在查令十字車站附近的小販攤
我第一次吃到了這麼新鮮的桃子
甜美得令我難以置信
二十五歲的我如醍醐灌頂目瞪口呆
我竟沒體會過這最單純的快樂
Fulbright Scholars
--Ted Hughes
Where was it, in the Strand? A display
Of news items, in photographs.
For some reason I noticed it.
A picture of that year’s intake
Of Fulbright Scholars. Just arriving--
Or arrived. Or some of them.
Were you among them? I studied it.
Not too minutely, wondering
Which of them I might meet.
I remember that thought. Not
Your face. No doubt I scanned particularly
The girls. Maybe I noticed you.
Maybe I weighed you up, feeling unlikely.
Noted your long hair, loose waves--
Your Veronica Lake bang. Not what it hid.
It would appear blond. And your grin.
Your exaggerated American
Grin for the cameras, the judges, the strangers, the frighteners.
Then I forgot. Yet I remember
The picture : the Fulbright Scholars.
With their luggage? It seems unlikely.
Could they have come as a team? That’s as I remember.
From a stall near Charing Cross Station.
It was the first fresh peach I had ever tasted.
I could hardly believe how delicious.
At twenty-five I was dumbfounded afresh
By my ignorance of the simplest things.
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