《金雀花》

文/和平岛

19世纪作为观赏植物

被引入温哥华岛

道路两旁

林间空地

裸露的悬崖

没处不是它的

应许之地

它用一束束鲜花

点中太阳，舒服的穴位

它用黄金

贿赂夏天

沿着高压电线

点燃一把火

它的豆荚

用看不见的倒刺

钩住风

像发情的野猫

无声之叫春

粘附在大地

每一寸肌肤

它趴在风的双翅

与尾巴上

化身鬼针草的刺

没有哪一张动物皮毛

躲避得开

它的扫把

变作宣示领土主权的小旗

它是最成功的移民——

地地道道的

加拿大黄花

Scotch Broom

By Heping Dao

Brought to Vancouver Island

in the 1800s, a mere ornamental.

Roadsides,

forest clearings,

bare cliffs—

nowhere is not its

Promised Land.

With bundles of flowers,

it presses the sun's acupoints, soothing and sweet.

With pure gold,

it bribes the summer,

along the high-voltage power lines.

It ignites a wildfire.

Its pods

with invisible barbs

hook onto the wind,

like wild cats in heat—

a mute caterwauling

into the earth's

every inch of skin.

Perched upon the wind’s wings

and tail,

it turns into the needles of beggar-ticks—

not a single animal's fur

can escape its clutch.

Its broom

becomes a little flag,

proclaiming sovereignty.

It is the most successful migrant—

a thoroughbred,

Canadian Broom.