英译汉《Design for November》

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Design for November

William Carlos Williams

Let confusion be the design

and all my thoughts go,

swallowed by desire: recess

from promises in

the November of your arms.

Release from the rose: broken

reeds, strawpale,

through which, from easy

branches that mock the blood

a few leaves fall. There

the mind is cradled,

stripped also and returned

to the ground, a trivial

and momentary clatter. Sleep

and be brought down, and so

condone the world, eased of

the jagged sky and all

its petty imageries, flying

birds, its fogs and windy

phalanxes…

十一月的冥思

困惑化作冥思

思绪自此远游

任由欲望吞噬

从你怀抱里

十一月的承诺中暂作歇息

从玫瑰中逃离

去追寻苍苍蒹葭，苍白无力的稻草

几片枯叶飘落

自愚弄血气的轻盈枝头

思绪在此发芽

而后远离，最终回归于此

琐碎与短暂地说笑之后

踉跄跌倒在此入眠

宽恕纷扰尘世

淡忘阴晴不定的苍穹

以及所有细微意象

飞鸟，迷雾与穿堂风

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译文为本人原创，能力有限，翻译得不好，见笑了