Lesley Yalen is a poet and fiction writer who is currently getting her MFA at the University of Massachusetts.

莱斯莉-雅兰是诗人和小说作者。她目前在美国麻省州立大学攻读写作硕士学位。

出生于中国湖南。90年代移民美国，毕业于加州州立大学电脑系。曾有诗歌、散文发表于报刊。现居加州洛杉矶。

Ying Yun was born in Hunan, China. She immigrated to USA in 1990s and graduated from California State University. She has published some poems and essays on newspapers. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

A Matter of Form

一种形式

Petals are pretty unbearable after they have fallen.
The deepest blush at the onset of rot—I am too human! I say
pull out the tooth before the cavity comes. That flower girl,
follow her down the aisle and pick up her mess. Consider
the stink, with the whole of eternity yet to be vowed
and the wrecked knees of everyone I know on the dance floor.
Weaklings! And again, the command: approach your love.
I approached. I asked him, What form of love is this?
And he answered immediately,
       This is the deep
       deep and
       long-lasting
       temporary love.
			

花落之后变得不能容忍。
腐烂开始时那一抹最深的红晕——我太过人性！我说
长牙洞之前拔了那牙。女花童
紧跟她走入过道  捡起她留下的混乱。想想
这股奇臭，整个永恒要被海誓山盟
舞厅的地板上是我认识的每一个人
破烂的膝盖。
   	 窝囊废！又一次，发号施令：靠近你的爱。
我靠近了；问他，这是什么形式的爱？
他立刻回答，
		 这是深深的
		 深 深 的
		 持——久——的
		 临时的爱。
			

The Cut

剪

                           
It’s a scissor summer
opening for the pulp
our life has clumped
recently into.
                      Rust is
         a     hindrance
         we can slice in
         spite of.
 
*

we are in the meadow we are in the garden
planted with pottery shards and the
principles of palmistry wherever we are
there is plenty of unreal fruit on the trees
jicama kiwi extra-ordinary things to eat
wherever I am

*

I want to hunch with you where
the berries are flush watch the
bushes go green and you blood 
blue. I want to sleep in the infirmary
where you were splinted. There. Let
me peroxide your fat split skin.

*

Will you join me on the cot or 
must the cot be my own tiresome
quiet?

*

Love—
the lips of summer hinge here 
Love I have for you a gesture and
a tool I had one piece of paper I
have two now watch them rock to
the ground like still-living birds
			

它是剪刀的夏天
为我们生命最近
聚集一起形成的
果肉打开

	    锈 是
   我们无休止地
   切成一片一片
   的妨碍

*

我们在草地上我们在种满
碎瓷与看相的规则的院中
无论我们在哪里树上总是
结满不真实的果实小罗卜
弥猴桃我何时何地都要吃
的超级普通的东西

*

我想和你一起弯着在遍地
草莓泛红的地方看灌木丛
变绿你的血变蓝。我想睡在
你被金属片绑着的医疗所。
那里。让我过氧化着你肥胖
分裂的皮肤。

*

你会来小床上和我一起么
或许这床是我自己疲惫的
安静？
 
*

爱——
夏天铰链的嘴唇这里
我对你的爱是手势和
工具我曾经有一张纸
现在有两张看着它们
震到地板像静静活着
的鸟儿