《乌普萨拉（Uppsala）》

作者：和平岛

合上地质之书

打开文明之书

就到了乌普萨拉：瑞典的精神和知识中心

从老乌普萨拉：时间之丘

到粉色乌普萨拉城堡与红砖乌普萨拉大教堂

让我确信:粉红色花岗岩

哪怕历经地壳，冰河，反复揉碎、分解、重组

梅拉伦河谷的黏土

重新粘合，铸烧出

独属国家与教会的

化石精致

维京国王火葬堆

人造火成岩的金字塔

边上的小注角，读出————

一株披着黑甲的矢车菊

属种二分法：Centaurea nigra

您本是天生的诗人

正如我应该做一个地质佬

大教堂的石门

轻轻合上

您的《自然系统》

我咬开一颗硕大的草莓

太阳光红色的汁液

撑破一层层细胞膜

轰然炸裂

四散的草籽

矢车菊————

乌普萨拉的生物多样性超级明星

被卑诗省入侵物种委员会，归于入侵物种

Uppsala

By He Ping Dao (和平岛)

Closing the Book of Geology,

Opening the Book of Civilization,

I arrive in Uppsala: Sweden’s spiritual and intellectual core.

From Gamla Uppsala: The Mound of Time,

To the pink Uppsala Castle and the red-brick Cathedral.

It convinces me: that pink granite—

Though crushed, decomposed, and reshaped by crust and glacier—

Can return as the clay of the Mälaren Valley,

Re-bonded and fired into

The fossilized refinement

Of State and Church.

Viking pyres,

Pyramids of man-made igneous rock;

In the marginalia, I read————

A single Cornflower in black armor,

The binary nomenclature: Centaurea nigra.

You, sir, were a born poet,

Just as I was meant to be a grease-stained geologist.

The stone doors of the Cathedral

Softly click shut

Upon your Systema Naturae.

I bite into a massive strawberry;

The crimson juice of sunlight

Bursts through layers of cell membranes,

A thunderous explosion.

Scattered seeds—

The Cornflower————

The biodiversity superstar of Uppsala,

Classified as an invasive species

By the Invasive Species Council of British Columbia.