编者按:勃莱的诗是极有弹性的,能在一种寻常的生活里伸展出另一个维度,但又始终和我们的日常息息相关。语气淡淡地谈论降温的天气,一切准备就绪,然后包裹起来,默默地在暗处呼吸、感知、等待,等待一个读者,等待你。
Winter Poem
Robert Bly
The quivering wings of the winter ant
wait for lean winter to end.
I love you in slow, dim-witted ways,
hardly speaking, one or two words only.
What caused us each to live hidden?
A wound, the wind, a word, a parent.
Sometimes we wait in a helpless way,
awkwardly, not whole and not healed.
When we hid the wound, we fell back
from a human to a shelled life.
Now we feel the ant’s hard chest,
the carapace, the silent tongue.
This must be the way of the ant,
the winter ant, the way of those
who are wounded and want to live:
to breathe, to sense another, and to wait.