初译 ANTHROPOMORPHIC By Elizabeth Bachinksy(请切磋)

[白水]

ANTHROPOMORPHIC

By Elizabeth Bachinksy

We sleep with the curtains open. Tonight,
the forest is lit by a full-faced moon. Black water
winks past the riverbank through the trees.
We were from the city. And now we are from
the country too. In the spring, teenagers
will appear with their titanium fishing rods.
In the summer, they will ride rubber inner-
tubes downstream. Masses of young flesh
will chirp and yip on the whitewater where,
not ten months before, the whole place reeked
of death. Chip bags and beer bottles and cell-
phones in hand, parents will prop plastic chairs
in the shallows and eat take-out burgers
while their little ones paddle out to the pools.
But, now, the river is silent
in the way a river is a silent rush of rivergrass
and the fetid stream goes about its decomposition.
My husband’s hands are slippery on my thighs.
He can’t help it, he says We are two slick fish…
and floodlights illuminate our gravel driveway.
We sit up, caught, momentarily, in our own
harsh light. One minute, two, and the flood clicks
off again. I can hear the refrigerator keeping
things cold in the kitchen, rooms away. What
is out there? What creature slouches through
the yard so late at night? Anthropomorphism,
I say, is a dangerous business.


<拟人>
诗/ Elizabeth Bachinksy
译/ 白水

我们敞着窗帘睡觉, 今晚
森林被丰满的月点燃. 黧黑的水
闪烁着漫过河岸穿过树林
我们从城市来. 现在我们
也来自乡村. 春天, 年轻人
将携带他们的鈦合金鱼杆来这儿.
夏日,他们会乘橡胶轮胎
顺流而下. 年青的欲望
在浪花中喧哗着, 尖叫着,
不到十个月前, 这儿弥漫着死亡的
气息. 手里抓着薯片袋, 啤酒瓶
和手机, 父母们在浅滩支起塑料椅享用外卖汉堡包
而这时他们的孩子在池塘中戏水
可是, 现在, 这条河安静了
近在咫尺河流静静地冲刷着水草
恶臭的小溪散发着它的腐败
我丈夫的手滑过我的双腿.
他情不自禁, 他说我们是两条光滑的鱼……
泛光灯照亮我们的沙石车道
我们坐起身, 被自己慌乱的光
抓住, 一分钟, 两分钟, 泛光灯咯嗒一声
熄灭了. 隔着几间房, 我能听见厨房冰箱的制冷声. 外面
什么动静? 谁这么晚从院落懒散的走过, 赋予人形的,
我说, 这是危险的事.

[Lake]

粗粗读了一遍，有几个地方和译者理解得不大一样，提出来，请指正。

[kokho]

fantastic original poem ...


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[kino]

“He can’t help it” 是不是“情不自禁”的意思?

[戴玨]

[白水]

谢谢各位朋友和老师, 你们提的问题恰好是我犹豫再三的问题. KINO, 还有LAKE提出的下一句, 你一起帮我译了吧

[刘雨萍]

[白水]