【英诗汉译】美国人的收入——蔚雅风

周道模

American Income

The survey says all groups can make more money     

if they lose weight except black men ... men of other colors

and women of all colors have more gold, but black men

are the summary of weight, a lead thick thing on the scales,

meters spinning until they ring off the end of the numbering

of accumulation, how things grow heavy, fish on the

ends of lines that become whales, then prehistoric sea life

beyond all memories, the billion days of human hands

working, doing all the labor one can imagine, hands  

now the population of cactus leaves on a papyrus moon

waiting for the fire, the notes from all their singing gone  

up into the salt breath of tears of children that dry, rise  

up to be the crystalline canopy of promise, the infinite  

gone fishing days with the apologies for not being able to love  

anymore, gone down inside Earth somewhere where  

women make no demands, have fewer dreams of forever  

these feet that marched and ran and got cut off, these hearts

torn out of chests by nameless thieves, this thrashing

until the chaff is gone out and black men know the gold

of being the dead center of things, where pain is the gateway

to Jerusalem, Bodhi trees, places for meditation and howling

keeping the weeping heads of gods in their eyes.

           美国人的收入

                        美国 蔚雅风

调查说所有群团都能赚更多的钱如果他们减肥的话

黑人男性除外…… 其它有色人种的男性

和所有人种的女性有更多的黄金，但黑人男性们

是重量的概要，秤上的铅重物，

仪表转动直到它们挂出积累数据

的尾号，事物怎样变沉重，线端上的

鱼变成了鲸鱼，然后史前海洋生物

超越一切记忆，人类之手的十亿天的

工作，做一个人能想象的所有劳动，手

现在仙人掌的人口留在一个莎草纸月亮上

等待火，所有他们的歌唱的音符涨成的

孩子们眼泪的含盐的呼吸都干枯了，上升

成为承诺的结晶蓬，无限

已与道歉去了钓鱼天因为再也没有能力

相爱，已下到地球内部的某个地方在那儿

女人不提任何要求，有更少的永远的梦想

这些游行和奔跑并被砍断的脚，这些

被无名盗贼撕开胸膛的心脏，这颠簸

直到糠皮冒出来而黑人男性知道正成为

事物死点的黄金，在那里痛苦是通向

耶路撒冷的出入口，菩提树，冥想和嚎叫的地方

始终把神的哭泣的头保持在他们眼里。

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