洪郁芬，生于台湾高雄，70后诗人，就读中正大学中国文学系博士班。华文俳句社社长，香港圆桌诗刊主编，创世纪诗刊编辑。曾获第六十二届中国文艺奖章(诗歌类)、首届创世纪现代诗奖、第39届世界诗人大会中文诗第二名等。着《鱼腹里的诗人》《渺光之律》﹔主编《十围之树》《岁时记》。

Yuhfen Hong was born in the 1970s, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. PhD student of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Chung Cheng University. Director of Chinese Haiku Society, Chief Editor of Roundtable Poetry, Editor of The Epoch Poetry Quarterly. Received numerous poetry awards: the 62nd Chinese Literary Award (Poetry), the first Epoch Poetry Award, the second place in the Chinese poetry of the 39th World Congress of Poets and so on. Author of Tune of Tiny Light and The Poet in the Fish's Belly. Editor of Saijiki and Around Ten of the Wood.

牛

Buffalo

出生后第一个喊出的名字
不是爸爸。台湾城镇的田埂间
駄伏在整个家族的軏轭下
拖犁走过四季的树荫与田野苍茫
城边夕阳暮色的水漥池塘里
滚着汗水歇息着蝉声蛙噪

牛的个性温醇，力能犂田耙土
跺蹄轻哞时卷起漫天风沙
震惊三合院一棚豆瓜一窝家畜
我爱他的尖角弯曲状不攻击
仅让偷偷靠近竹笼的野猪
远远的绕过酣睡的兔子和红萝卜

当机械的齿轮快速辗过
电子秤不停宣告斤两的裁决
退隐在乡里草棚边他的眼眸
慈祥如生养抚育我的父亲
由是我得着生命。遂念及生这个字
原是一头牛永恒站在故乡的土地上
			

The first name I called after birth
Not dad. Among Taiwanese towns and fields
Dormant under the yoke of the entire family
He ploughs through the shades and fields of the four seasons
In the pond at sunset by cityside
Rests with cicada and frog noise in sweat

Buffalo is warm and mellow, powerful in plowing,
Rolls up the wind and sand when softly hoofing and mooing
Shocks courtyards' sheds of gourds and nests of livestock
I love his sharp curved corners don't attack
Only let wild boars who sneak into bamboo cages
Bypass and far away from the dormant rabbits and carrots

When the gears of machinery roll over quickly
The electronic scale keeps announcing the verdict
Retreated by the grass shed in the country, his eyes
Kind like father who raised me up.
I have life by him. Then I think about the word “life”,
Originally was a cow standing forever
on the land of his hometown