Some Trees

树

John Ashbery

约翰·阿什贝利

These are amazing: each

Joining a neighbor, as though speech

Were a still performance.

Arranging by chance

这些树让人惊奇：每一棵

都与相邻的一棵枝叶相连，似乎交谈

是一种静态的表演。

命定中就在今晨，

To meet as far this morning

From the world as agreeing

With it, you and I

Are suddenly what trees try

从我们所能认可的

世界的尽头来这里

相遇，你和我

突然就是这些树想要

To tell us we are:

That their merely being there

Means something; that soon

We may touch, love, explain.

示范给我们的样子：

只要在那里一站

就意味深长；很快

我们就会相触，相爱，相互释怀。

And glad not to have invented

Such comeliness, we are surrounded:

A silence already filled with noises,

A canvas on which emerges

更高兴的是，我们不必虚构

这份优雅，在我们的周围，还有

一片充满喧闹的寂静，

一块画布，上面浮现出

A chorus of smiles, a winter morning.

Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,

Our days put on such reticence

These accents seem their own defense.

微笑的和声，一个冬日的早晨。

放置在迷离的天光下，不断地移动，

我们的日子带着如此的沉默，

就连这乡音也成了各自的防护。

阿九 译

Oct-08-2006