試譯：〈回音〉 羅伯特·克里利【Echo－Robert Creeley】

回音　　羅伯特·克里利（試譯：淺白）
 
靜靜地坐着、等着
──這從來
都不是件簡單的事。
 
會否還存有
另外一種走向，一段
可以走下去的餘程──
 
就像一剎回聲
停懸在
空中，在
 
聽見之先，
一個字
說出之前。
 
愛是甚麼
它究竟在哪
而人，又是怎來到這裏的？
 
22/5/2024初稿
 
Echo
By Robert Creeley (from his 1982 collection Echoes)
 
It was never
simple to wait,
to sit quiet.
 
Was there still
another way round,
a distance to go—
 
as if an echo
hung in
the air before
 
one was heard,
before a word
had been said.
 
What was love
and where
and how did one get there.

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