Fan Jinghua: Ariadne’s Mindscape

　　Ariadne’s Mindscape

This walnut boat　winding through twists and turns　is a pair of lips half-open
Wind　irrigating the gorge　tucks their call close to the ripples around the stern
Like a draught over the mirror　evaporating the moisture on the lips in the depth
Whose will　after it wedges through the gaping gate　becomes erect and unstoppable
I crouch in the bilge and look upward　the strip of sky between two precipitous cliffs
Rushes me with a glare of blue　a solitary pine standing on the top like a legendary lady
Waiting for her lover　stretches out a thousand hands　titillating the bellyband of the sky dome
On the shady wall　dwarf jujubes hold their dark silhouettes　perfectly still

My keel is grown into my front　when I sail it rips through a gullet of frigid liquid
Like a surfing kite plowing the still water into the Milky Way clouds
But on my tailbone　the water-skiing reins are tied　unleashing infectious fishy droplets
Over my father’s labyrinth polis　an enceinte crisscrossing with streams and mountains
You are the motorboat　dashing into my father’s womb　like a giant sperm
And in the boudoir　I crouch and become the bilge　because I am sea-sick　all the time

　　阿里亚德涅的心城风景
转过九曲十八弯　我的小木船　是一对半启的唇
风　自峡口灌入　将一声呼唤紧压在船尾的水面
如流过镜面的穿堂风蒸发着镜底双唇上的湿润
它的意志坚挺　挤入微开的门后　一往无前
我蹲伏在船心　翘首　悬崖夹紧的一线天
泻下炫目的悠远　一棵松树伫立在崖顶　
撑开一千只手搔弄蓝天 犹如传说中的期盼
背阴的崖壁上　几株低矮的野枣树撑持着剪影

剖开一汪阴冷的液体　我长在腹下的龙骨　
像一只冲浪的风筝　将止水犁出银河中的云朵
而我的尾骨却系着滑水的缰绳　身后飘着水珠
于是我父亲的迷宫之城腥味弥漫　这山水阡陌的王国
你驾着摩托艇　像一只精虫冲进我父亲的子宫
深闺中的我　因为晕船而蹲伏成船心　自始至终

注：阿里亚德涅Ariadne，古希腊神话中她对英雄忒修斯Theseus一见钟情，以线团助他走出她父亲的迷宫，后随他而去，旋即被弃。
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　2005年10月8日星期六

This poem was written after my memory about a tour in Lesser Three Gorges a few years ago. The Chinese version was published in Taiwan Poetry (Forum No 2, 2006). For me, this poem is about the stereo-type power relation between Father-hero and daughter.
该诗是我根据自己前些年游览小三峡的记忆而写成的，汉语版刊登在《台湾诗学·论坛二号·领土浮出》（2006年3月）。与我个人而言，这首诗写的是传统的“父亲-英雄-主角”与女儿的权力关系。

后面附有严忠政先生的评论文字，有关段落如下：
　希腊式的英雄走向毁灭，往往有其个性中独特的缺憾，或者道德上的瑕疵。[作者]的《阿里亚德涅的心城风景》，其心城（心象）由“小木船；半启的唇”、“（坚挺挤入）微开的门后；悬崖夹紧的一线天”、“一千只手搔弄蓝天；传说中的期盼”一一组成“风景”，途中风景也多所指涉，在歧义中带出繁复意象。随其出走，逐步建构的是欢愉过后的悲剧，徒留“迷宫之城腥味弥漫”。