李敏勇·《死亡记事》英译

报纸上

刊载着死刑犯枪决的消息

在微亮的清晨

响起了枪击声

倒下了身体

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血流在人犯倒下的土地

那血迹

迅速被行刑的人掩盖

但血已渗入土里

溶入土地

 

在那位置

已不断枪决了好几个死刑犯

他们流下的血淤积着

使土地变成褚红色

并饥渴地等待着下一次枪决的人的血

 

因这么想

我的手颤栗起来

报纸掉落

我好象看到血从报纸流出

淤积在地板

 

在地板上的血的幻影里

等待谁的血呢

我这么自问着

但冰冷的地板若无其事

只是搁着报纸无言无语

 

Death Report

Li Minyong

 

The newspaper

Carries news of a criminal executed by firing squad

Popping of rifles

In the glimmer of dawn

A body falling to the ground

 

Blood spills on the ground where the criminal fell

The blood

Is quickly covered by triggermen

But the blood has soaked in

And become one with the ground

 

On that spot one death sentence after another

Has already been carried out

The spilled blood has been clotted

Giving the dirt a red-brown color

Making the dirt thirsty for more blood

 

Because of this thought

My hands begin to tremble

The newspaper falls

I see blood flowing from its pages

Clotting on the floor

 

Whose blood is it waiting forr?

This apparition of blood on the floorr?

I ask myself