作者kamadevas (蔗尾蜂房)
看板poetry
标题[翻译] Lesley Kartali, "keep me hanging on"
时间Wed Nov 14 06:59:57 2012
〈继续把我晾在一旁——写给底特律〉
——Lesley Kartali
提货区等待线:
天际线斜向上扬彷佛
因欲求而发亮的一张张脸庞
辛香刺激的汗水淋漓
周日卖场的人潮
与这几块停车区遥遥相望
沿路的铁丝刺网
化为无数小鸟
初次约会:
从氤氲的亮片海中冒出来
一片片被跃动的爵士乐铜管吹落
大声曳洒出一道闪亮地带
在这幽暗的大街上
接吻:
她的哼声破晓於街角
清晰如午夜被敲破的玻璃
诱使我的双唇慢慢接近
那几句我本不能
轻易说出的话
伫留一月记:
悲伤的屑屑被带进来
沾在我跑鞋鞋底
开始在我屋角肆意滋生
不顾双眼被燻得多麽刺痛
我一直刷一直刷
争执:
惊声尖叫把你吵醒
一阵红光警示灯回旋而过
一栋栋家屋被打得五内翻腾
轮廓线仍浓如呛人烟雾
火就在门外烧
朋友们的疑问:
你干嘛还住在那边?
不可怕吗?不是烂社区吗?
再跟我说一遍你干嘛还住那边?
要走的人:
我无法改变它
我没有那个能力
我只会增加问题
(说假话
会感觉好一点
既然你说了再见)
徘徊:
心灵
拖着脚步
被落在後面
与城市一同迷路
下水道闸口的水流
时涨时消
如一则没人听的申诉
keep me hanging on
for detroit
——Lesley Kartali
the pick up lines:
skyline tilted up like
faces lit with desire.
spices of the sweaty
sunday market crowd.
from a distance across those lots
the way barbed wire
became birds.
the first date:
from a sea of smoke sequins pop.
jazz bounces brass off each one.
blaring out a bright stretch
on an avenue of dim.
the kiss:
her hum broke dawn on the corner
clear as glass at midnight.
tempted my lips closer
to words i couldn't
quite speak.
one month in:
bringing in bits of sadness
on my sneaker soles.
begins to grow wild in my corners
no matter how hard eyes stinging
i scrub.
the fight:
screams to wake you.
rolling through red lights.
homes punched in guts.
lines still choking smog thick.
fire right outside the door.
friends' questions:
why do you live there?
isn't it scary? a bad neighborhood?
tell me again why you live there?
the leaving:
i can't change it.
i don't have that power.
i'm just adding to the problem.
(lies
to feel better
as you goodbye)
lingering:
the heart
dragging its feet
lagging behind
lost with the city
in sewer grate steam
swelling then dissipating
like an unheard plea
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1F:推 spacedunce5:check out a new book called Detroit Is the Place 11/14 21:35
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