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      向明的詩英譯兩首

         陽光顆粒

            一一謝啞弦

     溫暖是

     一種充滿陽光顆粒的激素

     在這陰霾風發的世代

     非常罕有

          *

     而你早就在儲備

     各種製造光熱的暖爐

          *

     而且把那燃得火紅的一隻

     留給了我

     在我正感手腳發冷的時候

     在你遠去與冰河為鄰的時候

          MOTES OF SUNLIGHT

             一一In Gratitude to Ya Hsien

     Warmth is

     A hormone filled with motes of sunlight

     It is very rare

     In this hazy, windy age

           *

     But long ago you readied

     Warm stoves for light and heat

           *

     You lift that fiery hot one

     For me

     When my hands and feet felt cold

     When you moved far away

     To the neighbor of glaciers

       註﹕詩人啞弦愛收藏各式暖爐，自號「百爐老人」，臨去加拿大定居前，送我自認最古舊的一隻，作為我們數十年友誼的見証。本詩英譯者為美藉陶忘機〈John J. S. Balcom〉教授。

           斷 章

            一‧

      頭仍在痛

      那個快要斷氣的人頭仍在痛

      靈媒說﹔他的塵緣未了

      牧師悄悄告訴家屬

      他的枕頭底下藏有幾碇碎銀

             *

      忘了給當年的小親親

            二‧

      我是不太愛與你搭訕的

      我們道不同

      我說的洛陽

      絕不同作響往的長安

      我說過天橋‧你叫走立交

             *

      如邁過中線見你‧還得繞道

             三‧

      你要認輸麼？

      一枚泡沬的勳章已掛你胸前

      划上獨木舟

      你仗便是海洋之王

      四圍整天護衛你的是風浪

             *

      驚濤的口號喊得震天價響

             四‧

      你說只有太陽

      能治好你長年的憂郁症

      給你鍍上一層光

      便是耀眼的金色黎明

      太陽能簡直是摧情的賀爾蒙

             *

      然而‧眼前總是煙雨濛濛

          OUT OF CONTEXT

                 1‧

      Still got a headache

      That man who is about to die still has got a headache

      The spirit medium says： He still has unfinished business in this world

      The pastor quietly tells the family

      That there’s some money hidden under his pillow

                *

      That he’d forgotten to give his little lover, all those years

                2、

      I’m not too fond of striking up a conversation with you

      Because we don’t have much in common

      What I said Luoyang

      Is definitely not the Chang’an you’re yearning for

      When I say walking across the overhead bridge, you insist on it’s an overpass

                *

      To meet you on the other side of the road , I’ll have to take a detour

                3‧

      Do you want to admit that you are defeated，don’t you？

      You’ve already got a medal of foam on your chest

      Riding a dugout

      You become the king of the sea

      Always protected by the stormy wave rolling all around you

                *

      The slogan of the tempestuous billow is yelling enough to shaking the very heaven

                4‧

      You say that only the sun

      Can cure your long-standing depression

      To put a bright shine on you

      You will become the golden light of dawn

      The solar energy is nothing less than an aphrodisiacal hormone

                *

      Yet before your eyes there’s always the misty blur of rain

            註一﹕本詩英譯者為德藉范德培教授（David van der Peet），1989年來台‧曾就讀台灣成功大學及輔仁大學先後獲中文碩博士學位。註二：以上兩譯詩均轉載自THE CHINESE PEN  第148,149兩期