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


画像

一个孩子画着一幅人体轮廓。
她画她所能画的,但全是空白,
她不能在那填入她知道的东西。
在无支撑的线条内,她知道
生命正在消失;她切换
一个又一个背景。象个孩子
她转向她的母亲。

而你画那颗心
用以抵付她创造的空虚。

   PORTRAIT

A child draws the outline of a body.
She draws what she can, but it is white all through,
she cannot fill in what she knows is there.
Within the unsupported line, she knows
that life is missing; she has cut
one background from another. Like a child,
she turns to her mother.

And you draw the heart
against the emptiness she has created.