不宜在婚礼上朗读的诗

为了帮我省钱，
你想要一首关于爱情的诗
作为你婚礼上的礼物。
我连续三夜躺在床上
望着贴在天花板上的
夜光星星。我曾聆听过银河的歌声。好吧
卡门，我宁愿送你第三套牛排刀
也不愿告诉你我知道的事情
让我去找些在商店可以买到的礼物吧。
别让我提醒你关于星星的事，
从那个距离看，我们渺小而脆弱，
就像婚礼蛋糕顶端的新娘
还有平托汽车仪表盘上的玛丽
捧着自己熟透，鲜红的心脏。

作者 / [美国]贝丝·安·芬内利
翻译 / 光诸

Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding

You ask me for a poem about love
in place of a wedding present, trying to save me
money.  For three nights I’ve lain
under glow-in-the-dark stars I’ve stuck to the ceiling
over my bed.  I’ve listened to the songs
of the galaxy.  Well, Carmen, I would rather
give you your third set of steak knives
than tell you what I know.  Let me find you
some other, store-bought present.  Don’t
make me warn you of stars, how they see us
from that distance as miniature and breakable
from the bride who tops the wedding cake
to the Mary on Pinto dashboards
holding her ripe, red heart in her hands.

Beth Ann Fennelly