百年诗经：商禽 逃亡的天空 长颈鹿【汉英对照】

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商禽

逃亡的天空

死者的脸是无人一见的沼泽

荒原的沼泽是部分天空的逃亡

逃亡的天空是满溢的玫瑰

溢出的玫瑰是降落的雪片

未结晶的雪花是脉管中的眼泪

升起来的眼泪是拨弄中的琴弦

被抚奏的琴弦是燃烧着的心

焚化了的心是沼泽的荒原

长颈鹿

那个年轻的狱卒发觉囚犯们每次体格检查时身长的

逐月增加都在脖子之后，他报告典狱长说：

“长官，窗子太高了！”而他得到的回答却是：

“不，他们瞻望岁月。”

仁慈的青年狱卒，不识岁月的容颜，不知岁月

的籍贯，不明岁月的行踪；仍夜夜往动物园中，

到长颈鹿栏下，去梭巡，去守候。

Shang Qin

The Fugitive Sky

The face of the dead person is the marsh unseen by anybody

The marsh of the wasteland is the escape of some portions of the sky

The fugitive sky is brimming with roses

And the spilt roses are falling snowflakes

The uncrystallized snowflakes are tears in the vessel

And the rising tears are the strings under strumming

The fondled strings are the burning heart

And the burnt heart is the marsh wasteland

The Giraffe

That young jailor found that each time the prisoners go through a medical examination

Their stature grows month after month behind their neck, and he reports it to the head jailor

“Sir, the window is too high!” And the answer he received is:

“No, they are looking forward to the years.”

The kindhearted jailor, knows not the appearance of years, knows not the native place of years, and knows not the whereabouts of years; still he goes to the zoo night after night, under the fence of the giraffe, patrolling, watching.

作者简介:

商禽（1930—2010）, 本名罗燕，四川省珙县人。1942年入行建乡私立真福中学。1950年随陆军部队去台湾。1956年加盟纪弦组织的“现代派”，后加入“创世纪”诗社。1969年赴美国爱荷华大学，以驻校作家身份从事写作，两年后回台湾任《时代周刊》副总编辑。主要作品有：诗集《梦或者黎明》、《用脚思想》等。部分诗作曾被译成多种外国文字，流布世界。

About the author:

Shang Qin (1930—2010 ), his original name was Luo Yan, and his ancestral place is Gongxian County of Sichuan Province. In 1942 he entered Zhenfu Middle School, a private school in Xingjian rural area. In 1950 he went to Taiwan with the land army. In 1956 he joined in “the Modern School” organized by Ji Xian, and later he participated in the poetry society of “The Epoch Poetry”. He went to Iowa University of America in 1969 to write as a writer at university; two years later, he returned to Taiwan to be the vice chief editor ofTimes Weekly. His main works include poem collections such as Dream or Dawn, To Think with Foot, etc. Some of his poems have been translated into many different foreign languages and have been internationally influential.

  （Translated by Zhang Zhizhong）