▎没有爱的性　

他们是怎么做到的，那些做爱
却没有爱的人？美得像舞者，
像花滑运动员一样在对方身上滑行
滑过坚冰，手指勾入
彼此的身体，脸
红得像牛排、红酒，湿得像
刚出生的孩子，他们的母亲正要
将他们排出。他们是如何要到了
要到了要到了神的身旁要到了
静静的水边，却并不爱
那和他们一起来到这里的人？光
像蒸汽一样从他们的皮肤上
缓缓升起。这些才是真正的信徒、
纯粹主义者、专业人士，他们不会
接受假弥赛亚、爱牧师
而不是爱上帝的人。他们不会
错把爱侣视为自己的快乐，
他们就像伟大的跑者：他们知道自己只是
孤独地与路面、寒冷、风、
鞋子的合脚程度、心脑血管的
健康状况相伴——只有这些因素，才像
床上的伴侣，而不是真相，真相就是
那宇宙中唯有的身体独自
对抗自己最好的时光。

作者 / [美国]莎朗·奥兹
翻译 / 照朗

▎Sex Without Love 　

How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hooked
inside each other’s bodies, faces
red as steak, wine, wet as the
children at birth whose mothers are going to
give them away. How do they come to the
come to the come to the God come to the
still waters, and not love
the one who came there with them, light
rising slowly as steam off their joined
skin? These are the true religious,
the purists, the pros, the ones who will not
accept a false Messiah, love the
priest instead of the God. They do not
mistake the lover for their own pleasure,
they are like great runners: they know they are alone
with the road surface, the cold, the wind,
the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-
vascular health—just factors, like the partner
in the bed, and not the truth, which is the
single body alone in the universe
against its own best time.

Sharon Olds