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星子 · 酷我！I made it！ 注册时间: 2004-06-05 帖子: 13192 来自: Toronto

Imago

Catherine Graham

My life as larva has ended.

Silken girdle around my middle,
pupa blends with vegetation.

The greening gift of greener cloth,
my chrysalis—the last instar.

A swaddled change that can't be seen.
Internal systems rearranging.

Leather ripe, eclose my bind.
Shrunken leaf, laundry wet.

Pump in air, escape the crippling,
drain of red. It's time,it's time.

Dew receives meconium.
Dawn, the quiet. Imago. Up.

(Catherine Graham, Pupa, Insomniac Press, 2003. www.catherinegraham.com).

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成虫

我的幼虫生活已经终结.

丝质腰带环绕着我的中间,
蛹溶合在草木中.

绿色的礼物,青绿的衣裳
蝶蛹间最后的蜕期

襁褓中的变化没人可见,
内部的体系重新排列.

皮革成熟圈围着肢节.
皱缩的树叶, 湿洗晾挂.

鼓起空气,逃脱折裂
耗尽血色, 时机正好.时机正好.

鲜露承接蛹便.
黎明寂静;成虫挺立.
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Lake · 发表于: 星期五一月 04, 2008 4:07 pm 发表主题:

一首简洁精致的小诗。great poem.

对昆虫学不在行。肤浅的一点看法。

星子 · 发表于: 星期五一月 04, 2008 11:03 pm 发表主题:

谢谢LAKE.

这首很多短句,不知如何译好?
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星子 · 发表于: 星期日一月 13, 2008 9:04 am 发表主题:

改了一些，但还是感觉不好，请再提意见或建议。
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星子 · 发表于: 星期四二月 21, 2008 1:44 pm 发表主题:

Reviews
"The poems in Pupa, her first collection, are spiky little meditations so taut and tightly controlled they are almost claustrophobic...The poems' effect is all the more intense as a result.... This impressive collection should put her on the Canlit map."
— The Toronto Star

"...Graham's Pupa is a debut collection of graceful concision and surprising wisdom."
— The Times-Colonist

"Graham has the haiku sensibility: not the Orientally measured form which, in English, can appeal only to the eye, but the talent for the evocative image succinctly expressed... Her best work is at once brief, yet resonant...the sophistication of their brevity, remind me of Roethke."
— The Fiddlehead
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