苏菲汉译英诗集 [中国]谭均《胴体向前》诗选

曲高和寡

他在宣纸上捣了个洞
接着从洞里
拖出了一条美妙的曲线
说 洞是夏娃
线是亚当

我自幼研习国粹
西方迷茫
推敲
不太明白 请教
他说 孺子不可教
这叫《创世纪》
米开朗基罗 我还多少听说
你听说个鸟
我哆嗦了一下
他问 什么叫
一江春水向东流
不知
不过听你这么一说
秋水应从西过

他一扬眉头
向东是东施
向西是西施
你总算有点慧根
我发愣
向西不是维纳斯吗

他怒了
我接着问 那么……向中呢
他不耐烦地
吼道
是你妈

The Art Work Is Too Elegant to Be Understood By Ordinary People

He pounded a hole on the rice paper
Then from the hole
Pulled out a nice curve
Said the hole is Eve
The curve is Adam

I’ve learned the Quintessence of Chinese Culture in my childhood
The western confused
Weigh
And do not quite understand, then consult
He said boy did not teach
This called Genesis
Michelangelo, I’d also heard him some
You had heard nothing
I shuddered
He asked what
The spring river flows east was called
Did not know
But listen to what you said
The autumn river should be from the west

He rised his forehead and eyebrows
To eastward is the ugly lady East Shi
To westward is the beauty West Shi
You were a little bit wise
I was in a daze
To westward is Venus

He was in anger
Then I asked, well… how about towards the middle
He impatiently
Roared
Your mother