▎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
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