空也静双语诗选[6]

空也静

空也静双语诗选[6]
文/空也静 译/倪庆行

1西安
城墙如一串佛珠
挂在钟楼的脖子上
阳光偶尔会伸出手指
拨动着，每念一下
就有一个朝代
从低矮的门洞里走出
兵俑身披盔甲
几千年按兵不动

Xi'an
By WEI Yanlie

The city wall is like a string of Buddha beads
Hanging on the neck of the bell tower
The sun occasionally sticks out its fingers
Every time it twirls and prays
There is a dynasty
Coming out of the low doorway
The terra cotta warriors in armor stand still for thousands of years

2岁末
一年到头啄食文字
向生活低头弯腰
寒风薅尽了飞翔的羽毛
捂住流血的伤口
一翻身
从一个梦掉入另一个梦
日子像堆好的积木
推倒重来

End of the Year
By WEI Yanlie

All the year round
I am busy pecking at words
Lower my head and bend before life
Cold winds have plucked all the flight feathers
Covering the bleeding wound
Turning over
I fall from one dream into another
Life is like a pile of well-stacked building blocks
Which must be leveled and started all over again

3山村
一声呼唤
从炊烟里长出
马蹄缠起晚归的小路
如果没有月亮
萤火虫就打着灯笼
满山遍野地
寻找

A Mountain Village
By WEI Yanlie

A call
Renders the cooking smoke
generating a path wrapped up by horse hooves for late returning
Which
If there is no moon
Fireflies are seeking
all over mountains and fields
by light of lanterns

4白露
夜爬上发梢
染白墙壁一面镜
寂寞抬高额头的海拨
荒草已无力隐瞒
衰败的迹象
冥冥中，总有些暗示
指向死亡

White Dew
By WEI Yanlie

Night crawls upon the hair ends
Whitening a mirror on the wall
Solitude has raised the altitude of brows
Withered wild weeds are too impotent to conceal
Signs of decay
Out of imperceptibility
There are always some hints
Pointing to death

5后半夜
扶起跌倒的身影
摇摇晃晃闯过一路红灯
雨湿透了临街阳台上
滑落的几声呼噜
如果一男一女
故事就可能编得生动离奇
偏偏是两个男人
无话不说

After Midnight
By WEI Yanlie

Propping up the fallen figure Staggering through red lights all the way
The rain soaking a few  snores
Slipped from a balcony facing the street
Were they a man and a woman
The story would be concocted vivid and bizarre
But they are two men
Talking about everything without any reserve

6古井
一把辘轳
绞起混浊的记忆
麻绳紧勒着
没黑没白的日子
谁也说不清哪个冬天
一个女人丢下冰锅冷灶
用身子填平这个窟窿
磨盘捂住
一张嘴


An Old Well
By WEI Yanlie

A windlass
Hoists a turbid memory
With ropes fastening miserable life tight and taut
No one can tell in which winter
A woman left cold stove and cauldron behind
And jumped into the well to fill the hole
A millstone seals
A mouth

Translated by NI Qinghang

7枫叶
像盖满公章的加急文件
顺着隐密的山路
一级一级转发下来
一字不露地
传达到每棵树
一夜之间
满山遍野一片红

Maple Leaves
By WEI Yanlie

Like an urgent document stamped with official seals
Being gradually transmitted along the hidden mountain paths
To every tree
Literally
Overnight
All over hills and dales are blazing red.

Translated by NI Qinghang

8登大雁塔
是塔一截一截长高
而我却停在1米75的高度
用尽浑身力气
往上爬的人
最终都得丢下远处的景
老老实实回到地上
手里捏着
一张作废的门票

Ascending the Great Wild Goose Pagoda
By WEI Yanlie

It is the pagoda that grows taller section by section
While my height remains at 1.75 meters
Using up all his physical strength
The climber
will ultimately have to leave the distant vista behind
and return honestly to the ground
Pinching in hand
An invalid ticket

Translated by NI Qinghang

9往事
一一读杨军《西迁往事》
键盘敲开紧锁的木门
往事披一件粗布衫
跟着几声咳嗽
走出老屋
一点一点捡起
零碎的记忆
叠起发黄的影子
装订成册

The Past Events
Reflections on reading Yang Jun's History of Moving to the West

By WEI Yanlie

The keyboard has knocked open the tightly-locked wooden door,
The Past dressed in a coarse garment,
Following a few coughs,
Walks out of the old house.
Picking it up bit by bit,
Fragmentary memories
Have folded up yellowing shadows
Into a bound volume.

Translated by NI Qinghang

10教师
塔吊越伸越长的手臂
穿过黑色的土地
贫穷的记忆
填不饱一位老人
越张越大的胃口
一根粉笔
在一块巴掌大的自留地里
种瓜得瓜

Teacher
By WEI Yanlie

The arm of the tower crane that stretches longer and longer
Crosses the black land
Memories of poverty
Can't fill up an old man's
Appetite that grows increasingly bigger
A piece of chalk
In a palm-sized reserved plot
Reaps what it sows

诗者：空也静，原名魏彦烈，青海省作协会员。诗发200多种纸刊，出版《格桑花开》《草原情歌》、《仰望昆仑》、《风舞经幡》、汉英双语诗集《轮回》等诗集多部。获昆仑文艺奖，唐蕃古道文学奖。诗观：快乐生活，安静写诗。

   译者：柳溪清泉，原名倪庆行，山东农业大学外国语学院副教授。对诗歌情有独钟，诗歌译作散见于《海外英语》、《暮雪诗刊》、《英语通》及《中国诗歌网》、《译原》网络期刊。研究方向为语篇分析、汉英对比与翻译。座右铭：生有所为（To live is to function）。