榆木
 
发布时间:2008-07-29 来源:翻译中国 发布者:上海翻译公司


榆木

整天我都在试图区分
需要和欲望。现在,于黑暗中,
对我们,木材的营造和设计者,
我只有感到苦涩悲伤,
因为我一直不变地
注视着这些榆木
和看到扭曲苦痛
的过程,静止的树
是痛苦的,并理解到
它不会做成形除了扭曲之状。

   ELMS

All day I tried to distinguish
need from desire. Now, in the dark,
I feel only bitter sadness for us,
the builders, the planers of wood,
because I have been looking
steadily at these elms
and seen the process that creates
the writhing, stationary tree
is torment, and have understood
it will make no forms but twisted forms.