Gedicht
Ya Shi
MEASURE
Noon sitting beneath the treetops where the great pinesopen wide their robes like an earthen jar, shaken but silent.
I confirm that the strength alien to all people
slowly nears me: if the webs between the branches
dangle gleam like beads of morning dew
then they too are fragile and phototropic things.
Have a seat think it over in the long and narrow valley
on the hill stones covered in the green velvet of moss
once I discovered a set of enormous waist-deep footprints
as if a hand accustomed to arranging great affairs
had left proof of itself in an unpredictably tiny way:
such varied measure! A few skeins of glistening web
a few footsteps that made the valley seem like a toy —
listen in the air, the constant zhazha sound of thunder's crush
© Translation: 2013, Nick Admussen
From: New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Publisher: Tupelo Press, North Adams, MA, 2013
From: New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Publisher: Tupelo Press, North Adams, MA, 2013
尺度
尺度
晌午 坐在巨松敞开胸襟的树冠下 象一只摇晃但又缄默的土瓮。
我肯定那不为人知的力量
已缓缓向我靠近:如果说枝间的蛛网
悬垂 如清晨的露珠闪亮
那也是这易碎的物事有着向光的属性。
坐下来 想想 在狭长的山谷里
在那些绿绒绒苔藓覆盖的山石上
我曾发现几个巨大而深陷的脚印
似乎那习惯于处理宏大事物的手
已在不可能预想的细微处留下证明:
多么不同的尺度!几绺湿亮的蛛网
几个曾将山谷视为儿戏的脚印──
你听 空中总有闷雷碾过的轧轧之声
Gedichten
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尺度
晌午 坐在巨松敞开胸襟的树冠下 象一只摇晃但又缄默的土瓮。
我肯定那不为人知的力量
已缓缓向我靠近:如果说枝间的蛛网
悬垂 如清晨的露珠闪亮
那也是这易碎的物事有着向光的属性。
坐下来 想想 在狭长的山谷里
在那些绿绒绒苔藓覆盖的山石上
我曾发现几个巨大而深陷的脚印
似乎那习惯于处理宏大事物的手
已在不可能预想的细微处留下证明:
多么不同的尺度!几绺湿亮的蛛网
几个曾将山谷视为儿戏的脚印──
你听 空中总有闷雷碾过的轧轧之声
MEASURE
Noon sitting beneath the treetops where the great pinesopen wide their robes like an earthen jar, shaken but silent.
I confirm that the strength alien to all people
slowly nears me: if the webs between the branches
dangle gleam like beads of morning dew
then they too are fragile and phototropic things.
Have a seat think it over in the long and narrow valley
on the hill stones covered in the green velvet of moss
once I discovered a set of enormous waist-deep footprints
as if a hand accustomed to arranging great affairs
had left proof of itself in an unpredictably tiny way:
such varied measure! A few skeins of glistening web
a few footsteps that made the valley seem like a toy —
listen in the air, the constant zhazha sound of thunder's crush
© 2013, Nick Admussen
From: New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Publisher: 2013, Tupelo Press, North Adams, MA
From: New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Publisher: 2013, Tupelo Press, North Adams, MA
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