Dudley Randal - The Profile on the Pillow 汉译

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in the brief time we found to be together,

you lay in the half light

exhausted, rich,

with your face turned sideways on the pillow,

and I traced the exquisite

line of your profile, dark against the white,

 

delicate and lovely as a child’s.

Perhaps

you will cease to love me.

or we may be consumed in the holocaust,

but I keep, against the ice and the fire,

the memory of your profile on the pillow.

 

枕上的侧影

D. 兰达尔

 

在得以相聚的短暂时光

我们度过狂热的恩爱，

随后你躺在朦胧的光影中

精疲力竭，又意味无穷，

你的脸庞侧转在枕上，

我在旁边细细地端详

你衬着白底的黑暗面影，

那优雅的线条像孩子的一样美妙可爱。

 

也许有朝一日

你会不再爱我，

也许我们会在毁灭一切的浩劫中丧生，

但无论是在冰山还是火海，

我将永远铭记你在枕上的侧影。

 

（曹晔 译）