菠菜帖

陈先发

母亲从乡下捎来菠菜一捆

根上带着土壤

这土壤，被我视作礼物的一部分。

亦然将要剔除的一部分：

──在乡村，土壤有

更多的用途

可用于自尽，也可用来堵住滚热的喉咙

致使不错用来猜谜。

南边丘陵常见的红壤，雨水

从中间剥离出砂粒

母亲仍心爱在那上头劳顿。

它又将长出什么？

我猜得中的终将消灭。

我猜不到的，将管辖这个乱糟糟的天下

是谁说过“事物以外、别无念念想”？

一首诗的乌有正在于

它幻化不定的容器

藏不住这一捆不行言说的菠菜。

它的青色险些是

一种逼迫──

母亲知谈我对天下有着太久的肝火

我回身打电话对母亲说：

“太可口了”。

“有一种刚出狱的涩味”。

我能看见她在晚餐中的

独饮

菠菜在小羽觞中又将熟练

而这个傍晚将依赖更深的土壤燃尽。

我对匮乏的渴求胜于被填饱的渴求

2012年1月

A Post on Spinach

Chen Xianfa

Mother picked spinach and brought it back from her village

earth still clinging to its roots

I saw this earth as part of the gift.

But it is also a part to be expunged:

─in the village, earth has

many functions

it can be used for suicide, or to stuff a burning throat

It could even be used to guess a riddle

the red soil seen in the Southern hills, raindrops

with sand grains stripped from their core

Mother still likes to labour on it.

What will it grow into?

What I can guess will disappear.

What I can’t guess will take control of this chaotic world

Who said “No ideas but in things”?

The absurdity of a poem lies in

its inconstant vessel

which cannot contain this mute clump of spinach.

Its green is almost

a kind of resistance─

Mother knows I hold grudges against the world too long

I give her a call:

“This is so delicious.”

“It tastes acerbic, like it’s just out of jail.”

I can picture her at dinner

drinking alone

And the spinach in the small wine glass ripening

as dusk depends on the ignition of a deeper vein of loam.

My thirst to be filled yields to my thirst for scarcity

January 2012

Translated from Chinese by Tammy Lai-ming Ho

飘渺的内容

陈先发

每一个肃静物体等着咱们

剥离出幽闭其中的呼救声

湖水说不

遂有悠扬

这远非一个假定：当我

跑步至湖边

湖水刚刚酿成

当我攀至山顶，在磨得

鳞伤遍体的鞋底

六和塔刚刚建成

在塔顶枯坐了几分钟

直射的光辉让东谈主依稀

这依稀不可说

这一眼望去的水浊舟孤不可说

这寂寞迟来的大汗不可说

这芭蕉叶上的

漫漫空缺不可说

我的出现

像宁静江面片刻伸出一只手

摇几下就

耐久地消灭了

这只手不可说

这由随心物象强制压缩而成的

诗的躯壳不可说

一切话语尽可废去，在

话语的无穷弹性把我的

大宗具躯壳从这刹那间打捞出来的

死活两茫茫不可说

2016年3月

The Unspeakable Body

Chen Xianfa

Every silent object awaits us

Peeling itself from entrapped screams

The lakewater says no

Followed by the ripples

This is far more than an assumption: When I

Ran to the lake shore

Its water had just formed

When I climbed to the mountaintop, under the

Soles of my shoes that were completely torn

Liuhe Pagoda had just been built

Sitting idle on its top for a while

The light piercing the structure put me in a trance

A trance that’s unspeakable

This lone boat on the turbid water is unspeakable

This latent body of sweat is unspeakable

The long emptiness

Above the banana leaves is unspeakable

My appearance

Is like a hand reaching out of a glass lake

Waving a few times

And disappearing forever

This hand cannot speak

These forcefully compressed improvisations of

Poems’ bodies do not say

All languages are obsolete─in

The infinite elasticity of the language let my

Countless bodies be salvaged in this instant

From between life and death’s unspeakable shores

March 2016

Translated from Chinese by Tammy Lai-ming Ho

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