诗人非马出版有十四本诗集 （除《秋窗 》是英文外，其它都是中文） 以及几本翻译，包括双语诗选《让盛宴开始──我喜爱的英文诗》。他还编选出版了几本台湾及中国现代诗选。他是前任伊利诺州诗人协会的会长，现居芝加哥。

William Marr (Fei Ma) is the author of fourteen books of poetry (all in his native Chinese language except Autumn Window which is in English) and several books of translations, including the bilingual anthology Let the Feast Begin—My Favorite English Poems.  He has also edited and published several anthologies of contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese poetry.  A longtime resident of Chicago, he served from 1993 to 1995 as the president of the Illinois State Poetry Society.

有一次我要一只鸟唱歌

Once I Asked a Bird to Sing

它说我唱
不出来也不想唱
这不是春天

我捏着它的脖子
说
唱呀唱呀
不唱歌算什么鸟

它挣扎着
但终于没唱成

我现在想
其实鸟没错
又不是诗人
哪能一年到头
说唱就唱

但那时候我只一心
要它唱歌
竟没注意到
春天就在我手里
微颤着
断气
			

he said no, I can’t
and I won’t
it’s not spring

I grasped his neck
and yelled
SING! SING!
WHAT KIND OF BIRD ARE YOU IF YOU DON’T SING
he gasped and struggled
but to the end he did not utter
one single note 

I now realize 
it really wasn’t his fault
not being a poet
he could not sing 
uninspired

but possessed by a burning passion 
I insisted on his singing then and there
and did not notice in my hand
spring had expired in agony 
			

龙

Dragons

没有人见过
真的龙颜
即使
恕卿无罪
抬起头来

但在高耸的屋脊
人们塑造龙的形象
绘声绘影
连几根胡须
都不放过
			

Emperors were regarded in old China
as divine manifestations of dragons

no one has ever seen
a real dragon
even with imperial permission
to raise one’s head

yet on the towering rooftops
people sculpted the images of dragons
omitting not even such a minute detail
as the scanty whiskers