午  後
 
 
 秋天的午後這樣好
 陽光像草坪柔軟地在我紙上鋪展
 難以相信會有夜晚
 會有篝火﹐會有人哀悼星星隕落
 
 你坐在對面
 書本的天藍色封面露出
 額角蒼白
 陽光在指縫裏變得鮮紅
 
 我愛這個午後
 於是吃完一個桔子
 就坐在這裏
 你就在我對面
 
 而人們在我身邊
 在書頁裏
 在大街上
 閃閃爍爍
 
 
 AFTERNOON
 
 
 an autumn afternoon so fine
 sunlight spreads across my paper softly like a grassy field
 hard to believe that night could come
 and bonfires burn, and people mourn the falling stars
 
 you sit across from me
 the sky-blue cover of your book revealed
 your temples going gray
 sunlight between your fingers turning bright red
 
 I love this afternoon
 so I eat a whole orange
 and just sit here
 with you across from me
 
 while all the people at my side
 on the printed page
 and in the wide street
 shimmer and shiver

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 芬蘭的詩
 
 
 走進他的居室
 他們在背光的側面
 抬起頭看你一眼
 深色背景上的微笑
 像北方的藍色月亮
 她們和她們的丈夫
 繼續埋頭於書稿
 樺樹皮的香味
 貓也看著你
 豎琴像一叢向日葵
 書籍潔淨而無灰塵
 冰塊的氣息
 流水走過無數的地方
 風從水面掠過
 好像鳥的叫聲
 她們驚異的眼睛
 閃爍一絲光芒
 像器皿，像牙齒
 冰岸樹上落下的羽毛
 
 POEM ON FINLAND
 
 
 walking into his room
 backlit profiles in silhouette
 the men look up at you
 smiles against that dark background
 are like the blue moon in the north
 the women and their husbands
 still keep their heads buried in drafts
 the scent of birch bark
 the cat’s watching you too
 harp like a clump of sunflowers
 the books clean with no trace of dust
 breath of ice-cubes
 flowing water passes countless places
 wind skims over the water
 like the cries of birds
 their startled eyes
 glimmer with a hint of light
 like tools, like teeth
 feathers falling on trees by the icy bank

（Tr. by Andrea Lingenfelter）