2022-09-25 World Rivers Day

【The Auroras of Autumn·I (1948)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless.

        His head is air. Beneath his tip at night

        Eyes open and fix on us in every sky.

        Or is this another wriggling out of the egg,

        Another image at the end of the cave,

        Another bodiless for the body's slough?

        This is where the serpent lives. This is his nest,

        These fields, these hills, these tinted distances,

        And the pines above and along and beside the sea.

        This is form gulping after formlessness,

        Skin flashing to wished-for disappearances

        And the serpent body flashing without the skin.

        This is the height emerging and its base

        These lights may finally attain a pole

        In the midmost midnight and find the serpent there,

        In another nest, the master of the maze

        Of body and air and forms and images,

        Relentlessly in possession of happiness.

        This is his poison: that we should disbelieve

        Even that. His meditations in the ferns,

        When he moved so slightly to make sure of sun,

        Made us no less as sure. We saw in his head,

        Black beaded on the rock, the flecked animal,

        The moving grass, the Indian in his glade.

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【《秋天的极光·之一》(1948年)】

威尔士人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            这是战神圣蛇生活的地方，没有形体。

            他的脑袋是空的。夜晚头顶下的

            眼睛睁开注视着我们每片天空。

            这是破壳爬出的又一件东西，

            洞穴深处的又一幅图像，

            肉体蜕变的又一个灵魂？

            这是战神圣蛇生活的地方。这是他的巢穴，

            广袤的原野，绵延的山丘，斑斓的色差，

            还有地面、沿途和海边的松林。

            这是无形之后吞噬的样子，

            肌肤闪烁到希望消失

            蜕皮的蛇身泛起光芒。

            这是展现的高度而其根基

            光照可能最终达到地极

            午夜时分在那里找到战神圣蛇，

            在另一个巢穴中，迷宫主人

            身体和感觉，形状和图像，

            毫不留情地占据着幸福。

            这是他的毒药：我们应该怀疑

            即使事已至此。他在蕨丛中沉思，

            当轻微移动以确定阳光，

            更让我们坚信不移。我们所见所感，

            挂在岩石上的黑色串珠，身带斑点的动物，

            移动的草坪，林见空地的印第安人。

【注】世界金融中心或称溪流草甸广场(Brookfield Place)是纽约市多山岛区的购物中心和办公楼综合体，而北湾码头则是纽约港最受欢迎的船埠海港。

2022: WTC Oculus & Memorial Site, NYC(纽约“大眼睛”车站与世贸中心纪念地)

2022: Headquarters of the United Nations, NYC(纽约联合国总部)

2022：Federal Hall NM—US Subtreasury, NYC(纽约联邦大厅·国库分部)

2022: Pat the Charging Bull for Good Luck, NYC(纽约华尔街金融牛)

2022: The Battery & Clinton Castle NM, NYC(纽约炮台地头堡国家纪念地)

2022：Trinity Church Wall Street, NYC(纽约·华尔街三一教堂)

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