Summer
by Louise Gluck
夏天
SUMMER by Louise Gluck.mp3来自汉语故事00:0001:42
Remember the days of our first happiness,
how strong we were, how dazed by passion,
lying all day, then all night in the narrow bed,
sleeping there, eating there too: it was summer,
it seemed everything had ripened
at once. And so hot we lay completely uncovered.
Sometimes the wind rose; a willow brushed the window.
还记得，那些最开始的快活日子，
我们是那么精力旺盛，是那么被激情冲昏了头脑，
在那张窄床上，整日整夜地躺着
吃在那儿，睡在那儿：那会儿是夏天，
恍惚一瞬间
一切，都变成熟了。燥热难耐，我们全身赤裸。
风儿不时吹过；柳枝轻拂窗口。
But we were lost in a way, didn't you feel that?
The bed was like a raft; I felt us drifting
far from our natures, toward a place where we'd discover nothing.
First the sun, then the moon, in pieces,
shone through the willow.
Things anyone could see.
可似乎，我们都迷失了自己，你不觉得吗？
那床就像一张筏；让我以为，我们在漂流
驶离我们的本体，飘向一片荒芜。
先是细碎的阳光，后是粼粼的月华，
流连过这条条垂柳，
这人人可见的景物。
Then the circles closed. Slowly the nights grew cool;
the pendant leaves of the willow
yellowed and fell. And in each of us began
a deep isolation, though we never spoke of this,
of the absence of regret.
We were artists again, my husband.
We could resume the journey.
光环消失了。夜也渐渐凉爽起来；
这垂柳的坠叶
开始泛黄，凋零。而我们心中
也生起深深的孤独，虽然我们从来不曾说起它，
说起那缺位的遗憾。
我们再次成了艺术家，我的丈夫。
我们可以继续这段旅程。
瑞典斯德哥尔摩当地时间10月8日下午1点，瑞典学院将2020年度诺贝尔文学奖颁给美国诗人露易丝·格丽克，“因为她那毋庸置疑的诗意声音具备朴素的美，让每一个个体的存在都具有普遍性。”
露易丝·格丽克（Louise Glück，1943－ ），美国诗人，生于匈牙利裔犹太人家庭，1968年出版处女诗集《头生子》，至今著有十二本诗集和一本诗随笔集，遍获各种诗歌奖项，包括普利策奖、国家图书奖、全国书评界奖、美国诗人学院华莱士·斯蒂文斯奖、波林根奖等。
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http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/louise_gluck/poems/15646
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