George Macbeth - Bats 汉译

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their incredible horse-shoe

loops, dead0stop

 

on air-brakes,

road-safe on

squeaks: racketeering

 

their SOS noise in a

jai-alai

bat-jam

 

of collapsed umbrellas, a

Chancery Lane

of avoided

 

collisions, all in a

cave without lights; then

hung

 

happy, a snore

of starp-hangers

undergrounding

 

without an Evening

Standard between them

to the common Waterloo

 

that awaits bats, like

all beasts, then

off now, zoom!

 

Man, you can’t even

hear them; bats,

are they?

 

                     1967