我們別無他法制止情感迅速的滑落

▎感情幹線

Sometimes the snow comes down in June

Sometimes the sun goes'round the moon

Sometimes 我和你分叉

城市高危吊詭的幹線

每當列車隆隆駛入月台的剎那

漆黑的隧道總會空白一片

沒有血色的玻璃門上注滿

一雙一對鬼影幢幢的眼睛

看不透門外蠕動的風景

除了努力抓緊一根金屬的扶手外

我們別無他法制止

情感迅速的滑落

無論踏入還是踏出車廂

我們都不能逃避月台的跨越

無論是追、趕、跑、跳

這一步原是無可厚非的

讓中途的路程提前圓滿

但往往只有「請勿超越黃線」

或「小心月台空隙」的警告

霸佔你我密集擠塞的思維

唯是欠缺這個姿勢

我們終於也無法行行重行行了

把最好的都留在最後

管它是月台還是舞台

毋須送我回家

也不打算眷顧你流連的背影

就讓兩邊相反相成的隧道

同時響起列車開動的噪音

那時候期待 你依然相信

Sometimes the snow comes down in June

Sometimes the sun goes'round the moon

Sometimes 我和你分叉

兩條終極無間的感情線

▎Tracks of Emotion

Sometimes the snow comes down in June

Sometimes the sun goes'round the moon

Sometimes we diverge

on the city's strange and dangerous tracks

When each train roars into the station

a section of the pitch-black tunnel turns blank

the color-drained glass door fills

with pair after pair of ghostly sparkling eyes

that can't see through to the scene creeping by

aside from grasping onto the metal handles

we have no way of stopping

our emotions from quickly slipping by

No matter how we step in or out of the train

we can't avoid the platform gap

whether chasing, catching up, running, jumping

it is a blameless step

that completes a half-finished journey

but there are often warnings “Please stand behind the yellow line”

or “mind the gap”

our thoughts are crammed with them

but we still lack the right mindset

and in the end we can't go on or start again

Leave the best for last

whether on the platform of the stage

there's no need to see me home

I won't be tender toward your parting shadow

let the equal and opposite tunnels

ring with the simultaneous noises of two trains starting up

then with hope you still believe

Sometimes the snow comes down in June

Sometimes the sun goes'round the moon

Sometimes we diverge

on these two unending tracks of emotion

（Translated by Eleanor Goodman）

作者：洛楓 Natalia Chan 香港詩人、文化評論人。曾任教於香港中文大學等院校，著有《距離》、《錯失》、《飛天棺材》等多部詩歌、小說、評論文集。

題圖：Man and Woman in a Large Room，Richard Diebenkorn 繪