浴

碧空如洗，空气中飘荡着郁金香和水仙的芬芳。

阳光涌进浴室的窗户，穿透白白绿绿纵横的水纹。就像从裂缝处切开珠宝，它让水的断面闪闪发光。

小片的阳光在水面上舞蹈，舞蹈，而它们的反光在天花板上诱人地摇摆；我手指的轻触让它们转动，旋绕。我把一只脚和无数层面的光放进浴缸。我躺倒欢笑，任凭白白绿绿的水，在阳光下变成有裂纹的绿柱石的水，奔涌着淹没我。天光明亮得让人几乎无法承受，绿色的水把它挡在我的身体外面。我要在这里躺一会儿，和水和小片的阳光嬉耍。天空又高又蓝。一只乌鸦飞过窗前，而空气中飘荡着郁金香和水仙的芬芳。

作者 / [美国]艾米·洛威尔
翻译 / 光诸

Bath

The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air.

The sunshine pours in at the bath-room window and bores through the water in the bath-tub in lathes and planes of greenish-white. It cleaves the water into flaws like a jewel, and cracks it to bright light.

Little spots of sunshine lie on the surface of the water and dance, dance, and their reflections wobble deliciously over the ceiling; a stir of my finger sets them whirring, reeling. I move a foot and the planes of light in the water jar. I lie back and laugh, and let the green-white water, the sun-flawed beryl water, flow over me. The day is almost too bright to bear, the green water covers me from the too bright day. I will lie here awhile and play with the water and the sun spots. The sky is blue and high. A crow flaps by the window, and there is a whiff of tulips and narcissus in the air.

BY AMY LOWELL

今天向大家介绍这首诗，只有一个原因：它读起来太“凉快”了。

本诗的作者艾米·洛威尔是美国“意象派”诗歌的先驱之一，在1915年，她给“意象派”制定了几条准则：

《浴》这首诗完美地体现了这六条原则。但原则之外，我们还是能看出作者巨大的天才。这首诗用了极少的意象，有些词汇多次重复，但并没有给人僵硬乏味的感觉，反而因为非常坚决，同时又富有节奏感的意象使用，让人产生了真正的“体感”。

感谢大师的杰作，让我们在此刻感到绿柱石一样凉爽的水涌上来，隔在我们和高蓝的天空之间。