《邓杰内斯沙嘴 Dungeness spit》

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邓杰内斯

我把你流放

山谷、河流、城镇

请你们配合

一起来为邓杰内斯

设立

县立公园

国家野生动物保护区

请卸下

奥林匹斯山

诸多冰川

每年十二万立方的泥，砂，砾石

打造一个海湾，外加一个

沙嘴

请在它的舌尖，点燃一座灯塔

这里是，

Tse-tsis-ten三角洲，

S'Klallam人民的祖地

海峡对岸，

W̱SÁNEĆ人民，

另一处沙嘴

从我家窗口眺望

后方的更后方——

英吉利海峡里

邓杰内斯角

孤单的影子，你看

沙嘴以每年15英尺的速度

向蓝海伸展的腰肢

像极了一只向鲲鹏蜕变中的天鹅

欲摆脱海浪

吓得一只小灰蟹

死死不肯进笼

注：

Dungeness crab，即珍宝蟹，通常呈灰褐色。

“邓杰内斯”这个名字本身是由英国探险家乔治·温哥华在 1792 年，在地图上标注的，只因他注意到，这片低矮的沙质突出地带，让他想起了英吉利海峡上的邓杰内斯角。

Dungeness Spit

By He Ping Dao

Dungeness,

I exile you.

The Valley, the River, the Town,

please cooperate.

Together, for this name,

establish

the Landing County Park,

the National Wildlife Refuge.

Please unload

the twelve thousand cubic yards of silt, sand, and gravel

yielded each year

by the many glaciers of Mount Olympus.

Fashion the Bay, and with it,

the Sand Spit.

Please, upon the tip of its 5.5 miles of tongue, ignite the New Lighthouse.

Here is

the Tse-tsis-ten Delta,

the ancestral land of the S'Klallam people.

Across the strait,

the W̱SÁNEĆ people,

another spit

beheld from my window.

Far, far behind—

in the English Channel,

Dungeness Point’s

lonely shadow, look.

At a speed of fifteen feet per year,

the spit stretches its torso into the blue ocean.

So like a swan metamorphosing into a Kunpeng,

longing to break free from the waves,

frightening a little gray crab

that stubbornly refuses to enter the trap.

Note:

Dungeness crab, usually grayish-brown in color.