英文的诗词:Real Life

张东东

英文的诗词:Real Life

  Real Life

  by Lucie Brock-Broido

  Soon the electrical wires will grow heavy under the snow.

  I am thinking of fire of the possibility of fire & then moving

  Across America in a car with a powder blue dashboard,

  Moving to country music & the heart

  Is torn a little more because the song says the truth.

  Because in the thirty-six things that can happen

  To people, men & women, women & women,

  Men & men, in all these things the soul is bound

  To be broken somewhere along the line,

  That clove-scented, air-colored wanderer blushing

  With no memory, no inkling & then proceeds

  Across America

  In the sap green of the tropics,

  Toward the cadmium of a bitter sunrise to a new age,

  At the white impossible ice hour, starving,

  Past the electric blue of the rivers melting down,

  Above the nude, snuff, terra cotta, maybe fire,

  Over the tiny fragile mound of finger bones

  Of an Indian who died standing up,

  Through the heliotrope of a song about the sunset,

  To live the thirty-six things

  never comes home.