说诗 |《谈话》简·赫斯菲尔德 - 世世代代的蜘蛛是情绪衍生的情绪

The Conversation

- Jane Hirshfield

A woman moves close:

there is something she wants to say.

The currents take you one direction, her another.

All night you are aware of her presence,

aware of the conversation that did not happen.

Inside it are mountains, birds, a wide river,

a few sparse-leaved trees.

On the river, a wooden boat putters.

On its deck, a spider washes its face.

Years from now, the boat will reach a port by the sea,

and the generations of spider descendants upon it

will look out, from their nearsighted, eightfold eyes,

at something unanswered.

简•赫斯菲尔德 (Jane Hirshfield)，美国当代女诗人。1953年出生于纽约。

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