谢勋，现居旧金山东湾，著有英文化工参考书，现已退休，专事写作，翻译及书法。从2004年以来，负责讲义杂志的《国家地理新鲜闻》专栏。目前是《秋水诗刊》及《美国新大陆诗刊》的同仁，在每期的《秋水诗刊》里撰写“海外诗坛”，访问当代美国重要诗人及介绍美国诗坛的多样风貌。他的诗作也经常出现在美国的《世界日报》副刊上。

H. Philip Hsieh, author of a chemical engineering reference book published by Elsevier, is retired and devotes his time to writing (poetry in both Chinese and English and interviewing contemporary American poets), translation and Chinese calligraphy.

李作昌，1936 年生于江西南昌市。1957年毕业于台大电机系，1964年于斯坦佛大学电机系获博士学位。之后在美国高科技工业界从事研发工作长达三十八年。退休以后，重拾年轻时对诗的喜爱，开始写作发表。

T. C. Lee was born in Nanchang, Kiangsi, China 1936. He graduated with B. S. degree from National Taiwan University and from Stanford University with Ph. D in 1964, both in Electrical Engineering. Then he worked in R&D with the high tech industry in US for thirty eight years. After retirement he devoted his long hobby and love in poetry and starting writing poems for several magazines.

人力三轮车夫，在印度 —— 斋普尔游记

Pedicab Driver at India — Jaipur Tour

把我漆黑
发亮的手
拉成三轮车手把
把我的腿
卷成干瘪的轮胎
再用我的身子
超载
游客的幸福

当前途的坡度
高过我的腰的弯度时
我便下车拉
借用青春
使劲地拉
拉到连我的影子
也模糊成
路边的尘土

随机的滚滚
车潮人潮
把我蜂巢似的
过活空间
推挤成
齿轮的轧轧声

不像别人
我没有喇叭
发出内心的呐喊
只能以
认命的手势
比一比

或者
自言自语
直到我
低头捡回
掉落在这一片
溷沌中的自在
			

Take these pitch dark, 
shining hands of mine
and turn them into the handles of a pedicab.
Roll my spinning legs into
parched, brittle tires.
Then use my body again
overloaded
for the happiness of clients

With the slope ahead 
steeper than my warped waistline,
I come off my seat,
pulling the damned thing,
pulling
overdrawing every ounce of my youth.
Until my shadow finally succumbs,
blurring into the dust on the roadside.

Throngs of people and cars
shove my hivelike living space,
into the noise of
grinding gears.

Unlike others
I own no horns 
To scream my inner thoughts.
All I can do
is use my hands,
to compete.

Or
mutter to myself
until with lowered head
I rise 
and collapse into
a tangled ease.