Scott Alexander Jones is the author of elsewhere (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), Carpe Demons (Unsolicited Press, 2014), and One Day There Will Be Nothing to Show That We Were Ever Here (Bedouin Books, 2009). He is co-founder of the punk literary magazine, Zero Ducats, and his poems have appeared in over fifty journals. In 2009, he received his MFA from the University of Montana and was a writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists Refuge. In 2011, he received the Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Award from Emrys Journal. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

司各特-琼斯2009年获美国蒙大拿大学艺术硕士，曾任蒙大拿州艺术家避难所客座作家。琼斯出版过的诗集有：《别处》（黑劳伦斯出版社，2014），《享受魔鬼》（不速之客出版社，2014）以及《某日将无物证明我们来过此处》（贝都因人出版社，2009）。他曾在50多种文学期刊上发表作品，创立朋克文学杂志《零达克特》。2011年，他获Emrys杂志南希-杜-泰勒诗歌奖。他现居堪萨斯州劳伦斯市。

冯冬，1979年生于重庆，南京大学英文系博士毕业，现任教于暨南大学，译有《未来是一只灰色海鸥：西尔维娅-普拉斯诗全集》（2013）、小说《蛛网与磐石》（2011）、游记《中华帝国纪行》（2006）等，在海内外诗刊发表作品，与友合著诗集《残酷的乌鸦》（2011），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 has received a Ph.D degree in literature from Nanjing University and currently teaches English at Jinan University. He has translated The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (2013), The Web and the Rock (2011), A Journey through the Chinese Empire (2006), and co-written a book of poems: Cruel Raven (2011). His study includes poetry, psychoanalysis, and contemporary philosophy.

(from) elsewhere

别处

That finger on your temple is the barrel
of my raygun—
 
That wretched dull resonance
 
breaching walls where windows once were, here
at the end of all things
 
tells us nothing
 
we haven't already been told
 
regarding nightjars—
 
That eyelid slit of light
beneath the bathroom door at the end of the hallway
 
yellow & yellowish & yellowing
as deciduous leaves
 
come winter
 
says one of us remains
awake at this androgynous hour
 
lighting candles meant to conjure azaleas.
Call it evening despite
 
our blue proximity to morning—
 
Blue as your tattered pea coat I always mistook for black—
Choose any definition
 
of blackout:
 
A scarlet pulsing of stoplights
or the scar in my abdomen from the failed
 
appendectomy of a cyclone
 
fence—
 
And if I am sleeping thru the lullabies of a summer
storm, you are screaming
 
an arsenal of auburn
 
cellos into hiding—
 
Your lipstick desperately flamingo.
Soundlessly agape as Civil War daguerreotypes.
 
We have arrived
 
at the scene of the film where the first bullets hail down—
All sound cuts out—
 
Your larynx
 
banished brailleward
 
by explosions in the sky.
Toward the more taciturn outskirts of
 
anywhere but here—
 
The nowheres
 
we/ll no longer witness together—
Scouring burnt lexicons in search of the perfect word for
 
murmurs of wind
 
caught in a vacant stairwell—
			

那根手指在你太阳穴上
我的激光枪管——

一声悲惨的闷响

撕开墙壁，那儿曾有窗，在
一切终结之处

什么也没告诉我们

关于夜鹰

我们仍没有消息——

那眼睑般的光之狭缝
在走廊尽头洗手间的下方

黄色，淡黄，泛黄
如落叶林的叶子

来吧，冬天

说我们中的一个
还醒着，在这雌雄同体的时刻

点亮蜡烛意味着唤起那些杜鹃。
称它为夜晚吧，尽管

我们正接近黎明的蓝——

蓝得像你褴褛的海军呢大衣，我总将它错认为黑——
选择任何方式定义

晕厥：

信号灯的一次深红颤动
或我腹部的伤口，留下一个气旋的

失败的阑尾切除术

栅栏——

如果我睡过了夏日风暴的
催眠曲，你的尖叫

使褐色大提琴的

军械库隐没——

你的口红，极度的火烈鸟。
无声地张开如内战时期的银板摄影。

我们已经抵达

电影中的那幕场景，最初的子弹如冰雹降下——
所有声音被剪掉——

你的喉咙

被驱逐向盲文

因天空中的爆炸。
朝向此处之外任何一个

更加沉默的边缘——

那些无处

我们/将不再共同见证——
擦亮烧焦的词汇，寻找那完美之词，为

困入一座空楼梯井的

风的低语——