睡的变奏

我愿意看你入睡，
也许你根本睡不着。
我愿意睡意朦胧地，
看着你。我愿意与你
一起入睡，进入
你的梦境，当它那柔滑的黑波
卷过我的头顶

愿和你一起穿越那片透亮的
叶子黑蓝、摇曳不定的树林
那儿有水汪汪的太阳和三个月亮
走向你必须下去的那个山洞，
走向你最最担心的惊恐

我愿递给你一支银色的
树枝，一朵小白花，一个字
保护你，当你陷进
梦的深处的忧虑，
和忧虑深处的中心。
我愿跟随你再一次
走完那道长长的楼梯
变成一条小舟
小心地载你回来，做一朵
双手捧住的火焰
引导你回进
睡在我身旁的
你的躯体，让你
悄然回去如同吸进一口空气

我愿做那口空气
在你身体里做片刻的
逗留。我多愿自己也是那样的
不受注意，那样的须臾不可分离。

作者 / [加拿大] 玛格丽特·阿特伍德
翻译 / 李文俊

Variation On The Word Sleep

I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head

and walk with you through that lucent
wavering forest of bluegreen leaves
with its watery sun & three moons
towards the cave where you must descend,
towards your worst fear

I would like to give you the silver
branch, the small white flower, the one
word that will protect you
from the grief at the center
of your dream, from the grief
at the center I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and as you enter
it as easily as breathing in

I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.

by  Margaret Atwood

这首诗证明了加拿大文学女王玛格丽特·阿特伍德强大的文字催眠能力，再加上祭祀的朗读作为完美的诠释，真的很适合让焦虑者不焦虑，让不焦虑者更不焦虑。所以，不说那么多，沉浸在里面就好了。

荐诗 / 范致行
2013/05/26