Poetry Quarterly

  Editor-in-Chief:
  Yidan Han

  Contributing Editor:
  Kyle David Anderson

Yuan Liang 梁元生于中国重庆，上小学时随父母移居上海。毕业于复旦大学，并分别在美国两所大学获得学位。诗天空诗人协会会员。著有诗集《四月的墙下》《时间的乡愁》。现居南加州。 Yuan Liang was born in Chongqing, China. He moved to Shanghai with his parents while he attended elementary school. He graduated from Fudan University and holds graduate degrees from two American universities. He is a member of PoetrySky Poets Association and he has published a book of poetry Beneath the Wall of April (2009) and Homesick of Time. He lives in Southern California.		译者 Translator 梁元 Yuan Liang

光环		A Ring of Light
银色的光环中连衣裙在风中飘动光环向前滚动像一只孵化的蛋薄薄的壳碎了一只春燕从中飞出这就是你的身世你从一只燕子而来飞过青砖黑瓦在低矮的屋檐筑巢伴着桔黄的烛光和断续的书声风在窗外越吹越响烛光越来越弱你的眼神黯淡下来一只橘子刚刚被剥完天井的竹椅，鱼篓，水缸台阶一双黑布鞋茶几上一盆兰花仍在怀念消逝的脚步推开木门的吱呀声里阳光进屋，把烛影吞噬椅背上的青绸衫像要迎风站起来到头来家居都是客旅　　我们都是匆匆的路人迎着岁月的风燃尽自己的烛光　　中秋的月夜影子在不同的街上走出共同的时光像一只只瓷杯倒出昨日的陈茶光环开始收紧，变小萎缩成一个泡沫　　消失在昨日的梦里连衣裙在环中化成青烟晾衣绳上的手绢轻轻地落下地被风吹起像一只飞燕		In the silver ring of light a skirt is waving in the wind The ring is rolling along like a hatched egg The thin shell is broken out flies a spring swallow　 This is your origin　　 You are from a spring swallow flying over blue bricks and black tiles nesting under a low eave accompanying orange candlelight　 and intermittent sounds of book reading The wind outside, the window is blowing louder and louder The candlelight is getting weaker and weaker Your glances are glooming An orange has been just peeled Bamboo chair, fish basket, and water vat in the courtyard A pair of black cloth shoes on the step A pot of orchids on the tea table are still thinking of vanished steps In the sound of a shoved wood door sunshine enters, swallowing candle shadows The blue silk shirt on the chair　　 seems to stand up in the breeze Eventually all homes are guest houses we are hasty travelers in the face of windy years burning out our own candlelight mid-autumn moonlit night shadows on different streets walk out the mutual time like porcelain cups pouring out the old tea of yesterday The ring of light begins to close and fade out shrinking to a bubble vanishing in the dreams of yesterday The skirt dissolves into blue smoke A handkerchief on the laundry rope droops down gently and flutters in the wind like a flying swallow

光环

A Ring of Light