Xia Fang
Xia Fang, born in 1986, is a bilingual poet and translator. She has published two collections of translated poems and her own poetry has appeared in The Postcolonial Text, Canada Quarterly, Galaxy and Criterion. A View of the Sky Tunnel (ASM) is her first book of poetry. Her early written work was influenced by new life experiences, including the move to a new environment, in Macao. Xia completed her MA in translation studies in 2013. Now she is working towards her PhD degree in literary studies at the University of Macau.
蘑菇
細長的枝幹伏下身子，聆聽他的影子
暗淡的光線中，稀疏的草地
在棕色的土壤上，滿足於現狀
露珠在草葉上閃著晶瑩的光
蘑菇破土而出
草葉擠出行列
如牛奶一樣的煙升起來
在半空中凝結
記住，這個下午
mushroom
a slimy trunk leans out towards its shadow
in the bleak air, the loosening grass that was bright
— now tanwood-flooring — is content with its scale
among the glistening dewed grass
the mushroom breaks the soil and parts
green grass down to its brown skin
a milky grey smoke rears up
and freezes in mid-air
remember, this afternoon
世界便是舞臺
這個沒有果實的夏天
樹上結滿了知了
荷花在瓦罐中伸長脖子
如同舞臺上站滿了女人
有的側耳旁聽，有的八卦
白色柵欄那邊
黃色水牛蹄子淹沒在瓦罐中
瓷器店裏闖入的公牛
青蛙叫聲此起彼伏
藏在哪個瓦罐中還是個迷
the world’s a stage
it’s a fruitless season
except that some tree is rich with cicadas
the potted lotuses stick their necks out
straight or slant
like a stage with women actors
who like eavesdropping, or gossiping
on the other side of the white fence
a yellow cow/bull dips its hooves into the large pot
reminding you of a bull in a china shop
the frogs call
you can’t tell from which pot