当你出门遛狗

你晚上十点十四分给我打电话。我想：
他最好是被绑架了或者被枪击了或者
有外星人或者有野狗。或者有人死掉了
或者他把他的鞋弄丢在水沟里了。
狗犯了狂犬病，或者狗是死掉的那只。
出来吧，你笑着。你站在
草坪上拿着一袋狗屎和一条狗链。
你说看看月亮吧。然后我就看了。

作者 / M·索莱达·卡瓦列罗
翻译 / 杜鹏

When You Go Out to Walk the Dog

You call me at 10:14 p.m. I think:
He has been kidnapped or shot or maybe
it is aliens or wild dogs. Someone is dead
Or
he lost his shoe in a sinkhole. The dog
is rabid, or maybe the dog is the dead
one.
Come outside, you laugh. You are
standing on the lawn holding
a bag of shit and the dog leash. You say
look, look at the moon. And I do.

M. Soledad Caballero