Nine Short Poems by Bigheaded Duckie

Engligh translation of Nine Short Poems by Bigheaded Duckie

trans. Fan Jinghua

大头鸭鸭短诗九首英译

英译：得一忘二

　　The Snow and Crows

Burying every road

Covering the truth of everything

A snow

Cannot turn a crow into white

Winds blow, and the crow gets

Colder, like a piece of iron

A crow

Stains

The pure white of the world’s face

As if on purpose

　　大雪和乌鸦
　　
把道路埋掉
掩盖住事物的真相
一场大雪
却无法把乌鸦变白
　　
风将它越吹越冷
更像一块铁
　　
一只乌鸦
在世界洁白的脸上
留下污点
　　
它仿佛是故意的

　　Men on the Left and Women on the Right

Before and after

Ejaculation

Men have different worldviews

Which in women’s eyes

Proves the evil male unpredictability

Now, she only wants

A faithful son

Who will always love

Her mesh of blood and flesh

And her bodyful of bitter water

　　男左女右

射之前

与射之后

男人有不同的世界观

在女人眼里

男人叵测

现在，她只要一个

忠诚的儿子

爱她模糊的血肉

与满腹的苦水

　　Snowy Night

On the sofa crouches

A male animal

The TV is entertaining itself

With repulsive laughs

I am no nobler than others

Only that I have nothing to entertain

I look around and cannot find within a hundred miles

Any idiot telling me some tales

The flurrying snow falls

Like the compassion rising in my heart

　　雪夜

沙发上蜷缩着

一头雄性

电视机在自娱自乐

可恶的笑

我不比别人高尚

只是无以遣兴

环顾方圆百里

不见痴人说梦

雪花纷扬

如心中升起的怜惜

　　Afterglow

Its splendor belongs to the Heaven

With beauty denying any human

Unless you are one of its petals

　　晚霞

那是属于天堂的绚丽

你无法体验的美

除非，你是她们中的一朵

　Sentential Issues

God uses declaratives

Jesus uses allegories

Priests use imperatives

And whatever we utter

Is sick with errors

　　句式问题

上帝用判断句

耶稣喜欢比喻句

神父用祈使句

而我们呢一开口

就是病句

　　In the Springtime

Mammals

Have gleaming fur, in the springtime

So many fetuses formed

And aborted

Rains wash the earth

Flowers bloom boldly

There is neither grief nor joy in this

One man is shedding semen

To the mouth of night

　　在春天

哺乳动物

皮毛闪亮，在春天

有多少胎儿被孕育

又被拿掉

雨水洗刷大地

花朵开在枝头

有何悲喜可言

一个人激扬的精液

正被黑夜吞食

　　The Leopardess in the Far

A leopardess in the far

With overflowing milk

Although it is distant,

I can be sure she is there,

Crouching in the far,

Stripes beautiful, like you,

Who has awakening tits

And unfathomable

Fertility.

　　远方的母豹

母豹在远方

流出汁液

虽然远方太远

但我肯定：有一只

母豹，蹲在远方

斑纹迷人，和你一样

有苏醒的乳头

和不可预知的

生殖力

　　Sunflowers

Three sunflowers

Standing in the front vegetable garden

Their stalks dark and tall

Heads bigger than they should

And drooping

Almost to touch each other

Like three brothers

Whispering

　　向日葵

三棵向日葵

长在门前的菜地里

又黑又高的杆

它们大大的脑袋

下垂着

几乎碰在一起

像三个兄弟

在低声说话

诗人简介：大头鸭鸭，原名魏理科，男，1969年生于湖北潜江市。2003年与友人创办《新汉诗》民刊，并主持“新汉诗”网络论坛，有诗集《一个后湖农场的姑娘》出版（江苏文艺出版社，2014年）。他说“诗歌是奔向语言大众、生命本身和自由精神而去的”。

About the Poet: Bigheaded Duckie, pen-name of Wei Like, who was born in 1969 in Qianjiang, Hubei Province. In 2003, he co-founded a non-official poetry magazine New Chinese Poetry, and monitored the web forum of New Chinese Poetry. He has published a book of poetry A Girl of Back Lake Farm (Nanjing, 2014), and he believes that “poetry is for the masses of language users, for human life itself, and for the free spirit.”