[犰狳] -- Elizabeth Bishop(1911-1979) (赠罗勃．洛威尔) 每年这个时候 几乎每一夜都会出现 许多薄弱的、非法施放的天灯。 一盏盏爬昇到山际， 去陛见一位得道高人 这位山人在这一带仍颇受敬重， 纸房子里红通通的充满了光 来来去去，如一颗颗的心。 当天灯昇至天际 就很难分清何者是星星—— 行星群，也就是——那些朦朦胧胧的： 金星渐渐沉落，或火星， 或淡青色的那颗星。在风中， 天灯乎明乎暗，板荡飘摇； 但若得一刻安宁它们就稳稳航向 南十字星座的鸢尾形之际， 而後缓缓下降、逐一失落，肃静 又坚定地抛弃了我们， 抑或是，在登峰造极後向下沉沦 刹那间变成危险。 昨夜又一庞然天灯坠地。 它如一粒火卵啪嗒一声 火花四溅於屋後的山崖上。 余焰流泄。我们望见一双 猫头鹰的巢穴在彼故振翅飞起 飞起，牠们黑白交错的盘旋 掩映着底下桃色的光焰，直到 牠们嚎叫着飞离了我们的视线。 老猫头鹰的巢一定被烧掉了。 急急忙忙，孤孤单单， 一只斑烂的犰狳离开了现场， 身上点点绯色、垂着头、缩着尾， 继而一只小兔子一跃而出， 卷着耳朵，吓了我们一跳。 如此柔软！——如一握捉摸不定的灰烬 带着一对凝视的、灼热的眼睛。 美极了，如梦似幻的应物象形！ 呜呼天火坠地继而尖声呼啸 继而仓皇，一只生着鳞却柔软的拳头 握成一团浑然不知地顶天立地！ [The Armadillo] (For Robert Lowell) This is the time of year when almost every night the frail, illegal fire balloons appear. Climbing the mountain height, rising toward a saint still honored in these parts, the paper chambers flush and fill with light that comes and goes, like hearts. Once up against the sky it's hard to tell them from the stars-- planets, that is--the tinted ones: Venus going down, or Mars, or the pale green one. With a wind, they flare and falter, wobble and toss; but if it's still they steer between the kite sticks of the Southern Cross, receding, dwindling, solemnly and steadily forsaking us, or, in the downdraft from a peak, suddenly turning dangerous. Last night another big one fell. It splattered like an egg of fire against the cliff behind the house. The flame ran down. We saw the pair of owls who nest there flying up and up, their whirling black-and-white stained bright pink underneath, until they shrieked up out of sight. The ancient owls' nest must have burned. Hastily, all alone, a glistening armadillo left the scene, rose-flecked, head down, tail down, and then a baby rabbit jumped out, short-eared, to our surprise. So soft!--a handful of intangible ash with fixed, ignited eyes. Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry! O falling fire and piercing cry And panic, and a weak mailed fist Clenched ignorant against the sky! -- http://www.wretch.cc/blog/kamadevas\ --

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