Galway Kinnell (金納爾)
Walnut
胡桃
On the pot-holed road from the Port
Authority Terminal the Newark Airport bus
sighs up and down as if moguling.
In my experience, motion of this kind
while sitting in a bus often increases
the size of the penis. It does so now.
A mixed sign. In certain operas
the desire for sex and the allure of death
seem to be present just before or just after
each other but occasionally simultaneously.
從機場出來凹凸不平的路面上
紐瓦克機場的港務局公車
像重型機車到處發出嘆息
以我坐車的經驗,坐在公車上時
這種震動,經常會
讓我陰莖的尺寸變大,它現在就變大
在某些歌劇裡,有繁雜的嘆息
做愛的渴望與死亡的誘惑
會呈現在彼此的背後或面前
但這種事偶爾會同時發生
Consider the love life of the prostate.
During love-making this gland, which is,
as doctors like to say, the size of a walnut,
and has very few pleasure fibers in it
but a great many for pain, transmits
the sensation of pain with growing intensity,
until at last, when our walnut can no longer bear it,
the duct opens and semen bursts out and gives
shuddering relief or ecstatic joy, as you like.
細想前列腺的性生活
在做愛期間,這個腺體
像醫生們愛說的
變成跟胡桃一樣大
裡面只有些許使人愉悅的纖維
大部份都是疼痛,傳達出來
痛的感覺慢慢變強烈
直到最後,當我們的胡桃不能再忍受
輸精管打開,精液突然噴發讓你顫抖
像你愛做的,給你慰藉,使你著迷愉悅,
Climbing the Pulaski Skyway on a faulty
pneumatic suspension, the bus gasps
and blows and develops a bucking rhythm
that lets me imagine what the fuck-
ing of buses could be like. Minutes later
I find myself thinking the bus moves
like an antediluvian mammal
being shoved to its grave without first
having been fully persuaded its time is up.
Though not kept informed explicitly, the penis
instinctively senses this turn of thought, and shrinks.
車子爬上普拉斯基高架橋
汽車壓縮機出錯停了下來,
公車喘了又喘,顛簸的節奏慢慢揚起
這讓我想像著公車跟公車做愛時
會像甚麼樣子,幾分鐘後
我發現自己覺得公車開動時
像大洪水前的哺乳類
被推擠到它的墓穴,不像最早的動物
一直都徹底相信牠們繁榮的時代會到來
雖然沒有明確的通知,我的陰莖本能地
感覺到思想的轉變,縮小了
Galway Kinnell-美國詩人,得過1983年普利茲詩獎
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