Late Winter Snow

I have come to you

To spend the calmest time of year in peace

The fire need not be very bright

It is warm enough here

To sleep awhile unwittingly

Dreaming of youth

Against the brown wooden partition

I can almost hear

The somewhat distressed humming

The old country house

May no longer be there

With pinks growing slowly on the windowsill

Late winter snows float down twilight by twilight

To be heard in the solitude against the glass

And through the window illuminated by snowflakes

The old tree's crotches seem swarthier

And the sound of melting snow falling from the eaves

Keeps me long from sleep

And in my youth
I did not sleep till Mother
Having slaved daylong
From one room to the next
Tucked in my coverlet
So the snowflakes gradually tuck in memory of the past
And I faintly hear
Twigs fall
And the kettle singing
On the warm fire

暮冬之雪

作者:林莽 (Lin Mang)

我來到您的身旁

靜度這一年中最安閑的時光

爐火不用生得很旺

屋里已足夠溫暖

可以無心地睡一會兒

夢著小時候的日子

靠著棕色的木板隔墻

我仿佛又聽到了

那有些憂傷的哼唱

當年鄉下的老屋

也許早已不存在了

石竹花在窗臺上慢慢地生長

暮冬的雪飄落了一個又一個黃昏

寂靜中能聽到它們打在玻璃上的聲音

透過被飛雪映得發亮的窗子

老樹的枝椏顯得更加黝黑

屋檐上融雪垂落的聲音

使我久久不能入睡

像我小時候一樣

母親依舊那樣整日地操勞

她從這間房到那間房 最后

掩掩我的被角才去睡了

飄飛的雪花漸漸掩住了以往的記憶

隱約間我聽見

細枝墜落

溫暖的爐火上

水壺在發出嘶嘶的聲息