Have to Get Prepared
Nymph, autumn is pungent now.
Don’t linger by the water any longer,
Leave the crystal liquid to the andante clouds
And the leaves about to fall.
We have to get prepared for wintering:
Stitch up a cotton portiére, gather some firewood
To warm the frozen poems in the isolated night…
—and also, maybe, Dear, when a fresh snowstorm
Fuzzes the cold quilt of the earth,
You suddenly want to feel
How small you can be even to yourself,
Then we should have a shawl of felt
Big enough to tuck us together
So that we will be negligible as one, going into the whiteout.
Nov. 6-7, 2007
该准备越冬了
林仙，已是秋意酽酽了，
不要再留连于水泽。
将那清澄留给云朵的行板
和落叶最后的回旋舞吧，
我们要为越冬做好准备：
补缀好门帘，多打些柴薪，
为了在寒夜
烤暖我们手中冻僵的诗句……
——还有，或许当一场大雪封门后
又有一场大雪纷扬在旷野的棉被上，
你突然向往渺小，
那么要有一张大毛毡，将你我裹成一个
人，就像自己对自己那样
不足道，一心走进迷蒙。
2007年11月7日
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