Two Poems by Lan Lan 蓝蓝诗2首

Two Poems by Lan Lan 蓝蓝诗2首

蓝蓝（1967—）原名胡兰兰，祖籍河南郏县，中国著名诗人。她写诗、散文、戏剧，也是一位儿童文学作家。蓝蓝已出版作品三十多部，赢得中外多种文学奖，也有英语、俄语诗集在国外出版。2018年出版两本诗选《世界的渡口》和《从缪斯山谷归来》。

Lan Lan (1967-), aka. Hu Lanlan, is a renowned poet of Henan origin. She writes poetry, prose and plays, and she also write for children. She has authored more than 30 books, and garnered dozen literary prizes at home and abroad. The Ferry of the World and Back from Muse’s Valley are her two poetry collections published in 2018.

    真实

——献给石漫滩75·8垮坝数十万死难者

死人知道我们的谎言。在清晨

林间的鸟知道风。

果实知道大地之血的灌溉

哭声知道高脚杯的体面。

喉咙间的石头意味着亡灵在场

喝下它！猛兽的车轮需要它的润滑——

碾碎人，以及牙齿企图说出的真实。

世界在盲人脑袋的裂口里扭动

……黑暗从那里来

The Real

(Written for the hundred thousands of victims in Shimantan Reservoir Disaster)

The dead know our lies. At daybreak,

Birds in the woods already know the wind.

Crops know how blood irrigates the earth,

Wails know the decency of goblets.

The gravel in the throat tells the spirits of the dead are here.

Swig it! It is needed to lubricate the wheels of beasts—

To crunch people, and the truth the teeth try to release.

The world wiggles in the skull cracks of the blind,

… darkness seeping from there.

我知道

我知道树叶如何瑟瑟发抖。

知道小麦如何拔节。我知道

种子在泥土下挣破厚壳就像 

从女人的双腿间生出。

我看到过炊烟袅袅升起，在二郎庙的山脚 

树林和庄稼迅速变换着颜色。 

山谷的溪水从石滩上流走 

淙淙潺潺，水声比夜更辽远。

这一切把我引向对你的无知的痛苦。 

我知道。

I Know

I know how leaves shiver on the trees.

I know how wheat stretches stalks. I know
How seeds break open the husk of the earth,
Like the birth from the crotch of a woman.

I've seen slow rising of cooking smoke, at the mountain foot
Below Two-Men Temple, trees and crops changing colors in haste.
In the valley, creek water flows over rocky bed,
Burbling along, the rippling sound deeper than night.

This leads me to face my painful ignorance of you.
I know I know.

About the Translator:

范静哗（得一忘二）生于1965年，诗人，译者，出版有诗集与译诗集，诗作发表于中国大陆、台湾、美国、法国、新加坡等地的杂志与诗选。目前他居住在新加坡。

Fan Jinghua (1965-) is a poet and translator, and his poems appear in various literary magazines and anthologies in Mainland China, Taiwan, USA, France, and Singapore, etc. He currently lives in Singapore.