简单的意义

The Meaning of Simplicity

简单的意义

I hide behind simple things so you'll find me

我藏在简单的事物后面，这样你就能找到我，

if you don't find me, you'll find the things,

如果找不到，你将找到那些事物，

you'll touch what my hand has touched,

你将触摸我触摸过的东西，

our hand-prints will merge.

我们的手印将融合在一起。

The August moon glitters in the kitchen

八月的月亮为厨房撒上清辉，

like a tin-plated pot (it gets that way

because of what I'm saying to you) ,

好像给一个罐子镀上了锡层

（因为我同你的讲述，让它变得如此），

it lights up the empty house and

月光照亮了空房子，

the house's kneeling silence-

以及空房子里跪着的寂静——

always the silence remains kneeling.

寂静总是跪着的。

Every word is a doorway

每个词都是一个门廊，

to a meeting, one often cancelled,

通向一次常常被取消的会面。

and that's when a word is true:

只有最终抵达会面的词，

when it insists on the meeting.

才是真实之词。

-Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990)

希腊诗人扬尼斯·里索斯

Translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley