Gu Cheng's "River [1]" (顧城之「河」[一])

        河 (一)                               River (1)
 
       當我合上眼，                      Upon closing my eyes
　　思想便漸漸地微弱，             my thoughts slowly weaken
　　閃着藍光，                          wavering in blue light
　　像疲乏的燭火。                    like a weary candle.
　　我生命的温泉，                    The hotspring of my life
　　在夜、在夢、在地層中潛流。flowing beneath the night, in dreams, in layers of earth

　　在那溶凝無隙的黑暗里，       In that fissureless flow of darkness
　　它似乎是停止了，                 it seems to have ceased
　　但時光和水花匯成的歌，       but the song formed by time and sprays
　　却無止息地仍在傳播……         is ceaselessly spreading still...

　　初春的芳香，                        The fragrance of early spring
　　浸透了沙岩、石礫，              seeping through the sandstones, the rubbles
　　於是，大地便在蕩漾中復活。 and then, the earth revives in waves.
　　淡淡的，                               Gently   
　　像晨光樣渗出，                     oozing like morning rays
　　似露滴般閃爍……                    shimmering like dew drops...
　　呵！甦醒的風，                     Oh ! the awakened wind
　　吹動半天錦霞、一匹清波……is blowing across a sky of colorful clouds, a roll of new waves...

　　它在雲霧的帳幕中玩耍，        It's frolicking in tentfuls of misty clouds
　　又從彩虹的脊背上滑过，         sliding down the backs of rainbows
　　终於從高天飛瀉而下，            finally spilling down the sky
　　淹没了人間的一切沙原、荒漠。flooding all the arid lands and deserts of man

　　它是什麼？                             What's that?
　　是……                                      It's....
　　呵，就是我，                          Oh, that's me.
　　是我生命的江河。                   It's the river of my life.

   顧城 1973 濟南                          Gu Cheng 1973 Tsinan (tr. El Zorro)