Monday, January 28, 2008

Fan Jinghua: Snow

  Snow
      For --
It has been with you for nine days
Such an enormous presence
The older underlayers, once fresh, have never gone
But the new finds nothing to begrudge them a lenient coat
It just keeps falling as if falls with a grace
On whatever comes into the open air
On you whether you are in black or red
On the already white-capped evergreen and pine
Which you now only stand by and never touch
You look up into the grey sky but not too deep
Your face a summer flower wrapped in scarf
And your eyes cannot help blinking
For the snowflakes are falling just the same
Not knowing their life will be much shorter on warm faces
          Jan. 21, 2008

   
      有赠
已经弥漫于你的世界九天了
如此赫张弘和的存在
雪径自地落,以最神圣净洁的缓速
为脏旧的底层敷上宽厚的粉霜外衣
更新的新鲜新鲜着从前,从前的自己从未消失
它们覆盖着所有暴露的无生和来到露天中的生命
在你周身聚拢,不管你穿红还是戴绿
给已经戴上素冠的冬青和松柏更替一层蓬松
而你走近它们,亲昵的姿势,不敢触摸
你仰头看天,茫茫的灰,无法看得深远
脸如夏日的大花朵裹着围巾
双眼不由自主地眨,睫毛闪着细白的光
雪花一如既往地下,不知晓
它们落在温暖的脸上,生命必然更加短暂
           2008年1月21-22日

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