冯冬，1979年生于重庆，当过大学英文教师，南京大学英文博士班学生，曾译过游记《中华帝国纪行》、《亲密接触中国》、小说《蛛网与磐石》、诗歌《西米克的诗》等，在《新大陆》等诗刊上发表过作品，主要研究诗歌、精神分析和当代哲学。

Peter Feng was born in Chongqing, China, in 1979. He taught English at a Chinese college for two years. He is currently a PhD student at Nanjing University. He has co-translated a travelogue A Journey through the Chinese Empire, Intimate China, a novel The Web and the Rock and a book of translation Poems of Charles Simic. His poems appeared in Chinese poetry journal New World Poetry Bimonthly and others. His study includes poetry, psychoanalysis, and contemporary philosophy.

十月

October

你静静地站在阳台上
用你透明的眼神
注视着我
你在没有风的空气中微笑
此刻
白色的被单发出亮光
晾衣杆投下垂直的阴影
铁床与衣柜在角落里沉默
台灯温柔地倚靠书籍
内心的落叶
张开的手
脉络清晰如童年的记忆
你注视着我
像一个没有名字的朋友
你远道而来
停留片刻
问我那些没有答案的问题
将果实撒落在房间里
我一个个捡起
你带来最后的安慰与
最初的寒冷
我转身时
你正在离去
			

You stand on the balcony so quiet 
You look at me with your 
Transparent eyes
You smile in the air without wind 
Now 
The white bed-sheet is shining 
The laundry poles throw vertical shadows 
Iron bed and wardrobe are silent in the corner 
The desk lamp leans toward the books tenderly
Fallen leaves in the heart 
Open hands 
Veins are clear as childhood memory 
You just look at me 
Like a friend without a name 
You’ve come from afar 
But only stay for a moment 
You ask me questions without answers 
And scatter fruit in my room
I pick them up one by one
You bring the final comfort 
And the first cold
When I turn around 
You are already leaving
			

给一个即将去加拿大的朋友

For A Friend, Going To Canada

你说你的朋友都去流浪了 
你说大家曾经走在一起
是因为大家都是喜欢流浪的人
你说布努埃尔五十岁的时候
发现自己又一次身无分文
我说兰波用身上唯一的钱买了
去巴黎的火车票见魏尔兰
我们一起大笑
你说看过一部电影还是小说
里面的人想走出一个房间
但总是走不出去
我说我在梦里
发现自己再也抬不起手臂
你说你回到哈尔滨时
身后传来了野狼的嚎叫
我说我们的时间太少
不如把半个面包扔给野狼
这样才可以轻松上路
你说话的时候点燃了一根香烟
我说诗歌把我搞得神经不正常了
你说不管怎样也要把诗写下去
好的坏的谁知道呢
是啊谁知道呢
你在十分钟内抽了三支烟
我说你不想活了
你说你抽烟时总是这样
后来有人弹起了吉他
你说今天好像是感恩节
我说那我们感恩吧
为了巴格达被炸死的一百多人
这儿的音乐不错
后来我也记不得几点了
你说我们走吧
我说好的我们也该走了
寒冷的街道上空空荡荡的
			

You said all your friends wander
You said we were together
Because we all love wandering
You said when Bunuel was fifty
He found himself penniless again
I said Rimbaud used all his money
To buy a ticket to Paris to see Verlaine
We laughed together 
You said you got this from a film or a novel
That some people want to walk out of a room
But just can't do it 
I said in my dream
I can't even raise my arms
You said when you got back home 
You heard hyenas howling behind you 
I said we have so little time 
Why don't you throw some crumbs to the hyenas
So we can travel unburdened 
You lighted a cigarette when you talked  
I said poetry is driving me mad 
You said just keep writing  
Who knows whether it's good or bad 
Yeah who knows 
You finished three cigarettes in ten minutes 
I asked if you wanted to kill yourself
You said it's always the same story when you smoke
You said today is Thanksgiving 
I said alright let's give some thanks 
For the hundred people who died from a suicide bomb in Bagdad 
The music here is good 
I don't remember the time anymore
You said it's time to go
I said ok let's go 
Outside the street is cold and empty
			

冬至

Winter Solstice

火焰和大雪降临了
瘟疫降临了伯利恒的兽降临了
圣灵以七十种方言在大地上燃烧
到处都是火蓝色的火
谁此刻没有水就永远干渴
到处是阴影在行走
鬼魂在光天化日之下读报纸
每个人的舌头纠缠不清
说出相反的话
法官钉死了国王
国王在火焰里重生
寡妇在兽前脱光衣服
教堂里刮起一阵
巨大的穿堂风
黑暗中圣器颤抖
教皇像罪人一样跪在广场上
天空已陷落继续陷落
远处的冰山以七十海里的速度
撞向玻璃之城
自脚底发出的冰凉今夜
将悬挂于头顶
			

Fire burns and snow falls  
Plague and the beast of Bethlehem have descended 
The Holy Spirit crackles on seventy earthly tongues 
Everywhere fires burn blue 
Who is thirsty now will be thirsty forever 
Only shadows walk the earth 
Ghosts reading newspapers in broad day light      
Every tongue is entangled 
Mumbling knotted things 
The judge has crucified the king
The king is reborn in fire 
The widow stands naked before the beast
Inside the church 
There comes a huge draft 
In darkness the sacraments shiver 
The pope kneels down in the plaza like a sinner 
The sky has fallen it keeps falling 
At seventy miles per hour 
The iceberg is floating towards this city of glass
A coldness that starts from the soles of the feet
Will hang from your head by evening       
			

地震

Earthquake

我们告别时不过挥了挥手
就地震了
橄榄枝还跟去年一样绿
亲爱的
那时我们都在沉睡
夜光很皎洁
滴到海水里泛起了涟漪
地震时
我们都很年轻
我们都不相信海里
会飘满死者
那天死了无数个的我们
那天夜里
我听到来自地心的颤动
是那样的亲切
我起来看到窗外
橙色的街灯是那样温暖
我们起来收拾那些
残破的肢体吧
为了那些颤动我们
忘记了有明天
			

We just waved our hands when we parted 
Then the earthquake hit
The olive leaves are as green as last year 
My dear 
We were both asleep at that time
We didn't believe that the sea 
Would be full of the dead 
On that day many of us died 
That night 
I heard a tremor from the heart of the earth 
so intimate 
I arose and looked out the window
The orange street lights burned warmly
We got up and swept 
The broken limbs 
For the tremor we have forgotten 
There is tomorrow