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1.
Star
Derek Walcott
If, in the light of things, you fade
real, yet wanly withdrawn
to our determined and appropriate
distance, like the moon left on
all night among the leaves, may
you invisibly delight this house;
O star, doubly compassionate, who came
too soon for twilight, too late
for dawn, may your pale flame
direct the worst in us
through chaos
with the passion of
plain day.
星
德里克·沃尔科特
假如在万物之光中, 你真的
隐没, 而黯然退却到
我们即定的且恰当的
距离, 就如月亮在树丛间
彻夜辉映, 也愿你
冥冥之中欢愉这间屋子
哦星星, 双倍的怜悯, 黄昏时
你来得太早, 黎明时
你又去得太迟, 愿你苍白的光焰
以平日的激情
引领我们在至暗时分
穿越混沌
云天 译
2.
Love After Love
Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
爱之后的爱
德里克•沃尔科特
那一刻终会到来
你将兴高采烈
在自己门前, 在自己镜中
迎接你自己光临
彼此以微笑回应对方的欢迎
说, 请坐这儿, 请用餐.
你将再度爱上这个陌生人,曾经的你
敬上好酒, 奉上面包, 把你的心交还给
它自己, 交还给这个一生都爱着你
曾被你因别人而冷落
对你了如指掌的陌生人
从书架上取下那些情书
那些照片, 还有那些绝望的短笺
从镜子上揭下你的影像
坐下来, 享用你的人生
云天 译
3.
A Simple Flame
Derek Walcott
I
Still dreamt of, still missed,
especially on raw, rainy mornings, your face shifts
into anonymous schoolgirl faces, a punishment,
since sometimes you condescend to smile,
since at the corners of the smile there is forgiveness.
Besieged by sisters, you were a prize
of which they were too proud, circled
by the thorn thicket of their accusation,
what grave deep wrong, what wound have you brought, Anna?
The rain season comes with its load.
The half-year has travelled far. Its back hurts.
It drizzles wearily.
It is twenty years since,
after another war, the shell cases are where?
But in our brassy season, out imitation autumn,
your hair puts out its fire,
your gaze haunts innumerable photographs,
now clear, now indistinct,
all that pursuing generality,
that vengeful conspiracy with nature,
all that sly informing of objects,
and behind every line, your laugh
frozen into a lifeless photograph.
In that hair I could walk through the wheatfields of Russia,
your arms were downed and ripening pears,
for you became, in fact, another country,
you are Anna of the wheatfield and the weir,
you are Anna of the solid winter rain,
Anna of the smoky platform and the cold train,
in that war of absence, Anna of the steaming stations,
gone from the marsh edge,
from the drizzled shallows
puckering with gooseflesh,
Anna of the first green poems that startingly hardened.
of the mellowing breasts now,
Anna of the lurching, long flamingoes
of the harsh salt lingering in the thimble
of the bather's smile,
Anna of the darkened house, among the reeking shell cases,
lifting my hand and swearing us to her breast,
unbearably clear-eyed.
You are all Annas, enduring all goodbyes,
within the cynical station of your body,
Christie, Karenina, big-boned and passive,
that I found life within some novel's leaves
more real than you, already chosen
as his doomed heroine. You knew, you knew.
单纯的火焰 (之一)
德里克•沃尔科特
依旧梦见, 依旧怀念
尤其在阴雨的清晨, 你的容颜幻化成
那些无名女学生, 那是一种惩罚
因为你有时勉强微笑
因为那微笑的唇角挂着宽恕
被姐妹们围攻, 你曾是她们
为之炫耀的战利品, 她们的指控
如荆棘把你密密包围
你究竟犯过何等大错, 又铸成过什么伤害, 安娜?
雨季负重而来
半年就已行程遥远. 它腰酸背痛
小雨疲惫地落着
在又一场战争之后
二十年过去了, 那些炮弹壳在何处?
而在我们黄铜色的季节, 在仿造的秋天
你的发丝熄灭了它的火焰
你的凝视在无数张照片里出没
时而清晰, 时而朦胧
那所有的一切, 对普遍性的求索
与天性合谋的复仇
对事物的狡黠揭示
以及每一道线条背面你的笑容
都冻结成一幅了无生机的照片
在那发丝间, 我能穿越俄罗斯的麦田
你双臂下垂, 宛若就要熟的梨
其实, 你已成为另一个故乡
你是麦田与堤堰的安娜
是稠密冬雨的安娜
是烟雾笼罩的月台与清冷列车的安娜
是在那场缺席的战争中, 沸腾车站的安娜
是从沼泽的边缘
从冷得令人颤栗的
细雨的浅滩消失的安娜
是雏形方现的最初的青绿诗篇的安娜
是此刻有着丰润玉乳的安娜
是摇曳的, 修长的火烈鸟的安娜
是水管中残留的粗砺盐巴的安娜
是浴女含笑的安娜
是黑屋里的安娜, 置身于火药弥漫的弹壳间
举起我的手在她胸前起誓
清澈的目光令人难以抗拒
你是所有的安娜, 以你身体中愤世嫉俗的站台
承受所有的别离
克里斯蒂,卡列尼娜, 骨骼粗大, 性情乖顺
这些我在小说中遇见的人物
比你更实际, 而你已被拣选
做他命定的女主角. 你知道, 你知道
云天 译
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德里克·沃尔科特(1930~),德里克·沃尔科特(DerekWalcott,1930-),生于圣·卢西亚。诗人,剧作家及画家。出版过戏剧集和多种诗集。被誉为“今日英语文学中最好的诗人”(布罗斯基语)。在圣玛利大学和西印度的牙买加大学读过书,毕业后搬到特立尼达岛居住,并从此成为艺术评论家,在其作品中,探索和沉思加勒比海的历史、政治和民俗、风景,有强烈的历史感。他的诗因“具有伟大的光彩,历史的视野,献身多元文化的结果”,而获1992年诺贝尔文学奖。
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