Saturday 17 November 2007

彼日的寓言 Parable of the Day

當時有人在你面前滑倒
在擦得晶亮的紅色大理石地板上

每個路過的人都留下一灘漫漶的水漬
早晨一場大雨過後的咖啡館湧進了泥濘

而你看見那人的提包掉落
當他奮力跳過潮濕發亮的地面

你想要幫他撿起提包
不過是一個關心的動作

原本將會是糟糕的一天
卻在意念和行動之間的鴻溝消失時

你趨前撿起提包交給那人
挽救了這一天,就像沒事發生一樣

原文/Dean Brink
翻譯/江敏甄

When someone before you slips
on polished cinnabar marble

everyone leaving a cumulative trail of puddles
after a morning shower muddied into the cafe,

and you see the man's valise landing
while he pushes himself off the heavy, shiny ground

you think of picking it up for him
a gesture of concern.

It was going to be a bad day
and as the gap between the idea and the act vanishes

and you approach the valise and hand it to him
it brings the day around, as if it never were.

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