半島 (The Peninsula)

原詩﹕Seamus Heaney
翻譯﹕Lonoxon

當你已沒有話想說的時候
就用一天的時間　開車環繞半島
天空　高高的跨過了跑道
這片沒有標記的陸地　你　無法到達

只有一旦通過了那總是會避開的乍見土地
才見黃昏時分　地平線吞噬了海和山
被耕過的田地也吞沒了粉刷過的山牆
你又再一次陷入黑暗中　細細回想著。。。

給上釉的海灘﹑現出輪廓的圓木
把海浪撕碎成浪花的岩石
象踩著高蹺的長腳海鳥
遠遠的　島嶼漸行漸遠　最後消失在霧中

開車回家的時候　依然還是沒有話想說
除了現在　你會一一解開所有風景的代碼
即是只有忠于原貌的景物
那是水和土地交會的極端區


The Peninsula
~ Seamus Heaney

When you have nothing more to say, just drive
For a day all around the peninsula.
The sky is tall as over a runway,
The land without marks, so you will not arrive

But pass through, though always skirting landfall.
At dusk, horizons drink down sea and hill,
The ploughed field swallows the whitewashed gable
And you're in the dark again. Now recall

The glazed foreshore and silhouetted log.
That rock where breakers shredded into rags,
The leggy birds stilted on their own legs,
Islands riding themselves out into the fog.

And drive back home, still with nothing to say
Except that now you will uncode all landscapes
By this: things founded clean on their own shapes,
Water and ground in their extremity.