1. 阿兹特克面具 （译文）
我曾想拥有一张透视生活喉颚的脸
它一脸傲然，如此自豪以至于
颚骨遭受的重击和喉头的吞咽，
都将保留在脸上直至最后。
当这古老的骄傲模样之外的一切，
终被抛入尘埃，消失于燃尽的煤屑，
人们会说这脸是一道闪光，
它覆于取自大地脊梁的骨块之上，
准备接受岁月演变的锤炼，
准备寂静沉眠多年，
准备迎接尘，火，风。
我曾多想拥有这样的脸，而今天
在一个阿兹特克面具上，我看到了它。
它是发自风暴与黑暗的哭喊，
它是红色呼叫，
它是紫色祈祷者，
它是百击成形的灰烬，等待日出或夜晚，
是有或虚无，
是口含自信，眼神荣光的赌徒。
Aztec Mask
I wanted a man’s face looking into the jaws and throat of life，
With something proud on his face, so proud no smash of the jaws,
No gulp of the throat leaves the face in the end
With anything else than the old proud look:
Even to the finish, dumped in the dust,
Lost among the used-up cinders,
This face, men would say, is a flash,
Is laid on bones taken from the ribs of the earth,
Ready for the hammers of changing, changing years,
Ready for the sleeping, sleeping years of silence.
Ready for the dust and fire and wind.
I wanted this face and I saw it today in an Aztec mask.
A cry out of storm and dark, a red yell and a purple prayer,
A beaten shape of ashes
waiting the sunrise or night,
something or nothing,
proud-mouthed,
proud-eyed gambler.
2. 遗嘱 (译作)
授予殓葬人许可，
将我的躯体拖至墓地并安放，
头颅，脚，手，一切：
但我清楚，还有一些事情
他们无法妥置。
让穷人的母山羊和公山羊
来吃我坟边的苜蓿草，如果
我坟上的野花生出鹅黄发丝或青烟，
让穷人满手污垢的孩子来采摘花朵吧。
我曾有机会与拥有富足的人们，
或者两手空空的人们一起生活；
我两中选一，不曾
告诉任何人我的理由。
Testament
I give the undertakers permission to haul my body
to the graveyard and to lay away all, the head, the
feet, the hands, all: I know there is something left
over they can not put away.
Let the nanny goats and the billy goats of the shanty
people eat the clover over my grave and if any yellow
hair or any blue smoke of flowers is good enough to grow
over me let the dirty-fisted children of the shanty
people pick these flowers.
I have had my chance to live with the people who have
too much and the people who have too little and I chose
one of the two and I have told no man why.
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