关于这个人-SimonArmitage

关于这个人

Simon Armitage/ 刘荷辉 译

盖章的明信片，

不成文，但坦率地说，

一个口袋大小的日记用铅笔削减

从3月24日到4月1日。

一个用于插锁的钥匙，

一个模拟手表，自动上链，停了下来。

最后的需求

在他自己的手中，

卷起的解释说明

在那里种植像喷雾康乃馨

但是他的拳头斩首了。

购物清单。

一张赠品照片藏在他的钱包里，

一个纪念品储存在小盒子的心脏。

没有金或银，

但是一根手指加冕

一圈白色未经风化的皮肤。

这就是一切。

About His Person - Poem by Simon Armitage

A postcard stamped,

unwritten, but franked,

a pocket size diary slashed with a pencil

from March twenty-fourth to the first of April.

A brace of keys for a mortise lock,

an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.

A final demand

in his own hand,

a rolled up note of explanation

planted there like a spray carnation

but beheaded, in his fist.

A shopping list.

A givaway photgraph stashed in his wallet,

a kepsake banked in the heart of a locket.

no gold or silver,

but crowning one finger

a ring of white unweathered skin.

That was everything.