车邻选译美国诗人默温之《儿子》

车邻

儿子
当黑暗覆临父亲
她已曾三次远远地呼唤他
而后悄语晚安，我未出生
那只穿过父亲葬礼的鹪鹩仍在歌唱
此后我离乡居海滨
孤独的山长长地延到海边
太阳升起，有人找我寒暄
问我是谁，而他们又是谁
不久我发现山下有岩洞
污垢中的壁画碎片清晰
为此整日不倦地把玩
来自附近失事的船民把海边当作赛场
垃圾、洞天、悬在头顶的破车和死兽
每晚，人们滚动着巨石让它砸向屋顶
我一直阻止却无济于事
古老的故事，古老的故事
明晨，山洞满是新阳光
附原文：
               Son
As the shadow closed on the face once my father's
Three times learning forward far off she called
Good night in a whisper from before I was born
Later through the burial a wren went on singing
Then it was that I left for the coast to live
A single long mountain close to the shore
From it the sun rose and everyone there asked me
Who I was I asked them who they were
At that time I found the cave under the mountain
Drawings still on the walls carved fragments in the dirt
All my days I spent there groping in the floor
But some who came from nearby were wrecking the place for a game
Garbage through holes overhead broken cars dead animals
In the evenings they rolled huge rocks down to smash the roof
Nothing that I could do kept them from it for long
The old story the old story
And in the morning the cave full of new daylight

周道模

个别细节处未翻出来。

童天鉴日

The old story the old story
And in the morning the cave full of new daylight