威廉·斯塔福德(William Edgar Stafford, 1914-1993),美国诗人
信心
你永远不会孤单,
秋天降临
你听到如此深沉的声音。
黄色拖过群山,拨动琴弦,
或是闪电后的寂静,
在它说出自己的名字之前——
那时云彩将开口道歉。
你从出生起就成了目标:
你永远不会孤单。
雨会来一条充满的水沟,一条亚马逊,
漫长的走廊——
你从未听过如此深沉的声音,
石上青苔,以及岁月。你转过头——
那就是寂静的含意:
你不是孤身一人。
整个辽阔的世界一倾而下。
(马永波 译)
Assurance
You will never be alone, you hear so deep
a sound when autumn comes. Yellow
pulls across the hills and thrums,
or the silence after lightening before it says
its names- and then the clouds' wide-mouthed
apologies. You were aimed from birth:
you will never be alone. Rain
will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,
long aisles- you never heard so deep a sound,
moss on rock, and years. You turn your head-
that's what the silence meant: you're not alone.
The whole wide world pours down.
——William Stafford
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