The Other House那棟房子

I come back again to the old house

that I thoughtI knew for most ofa lifetime

the house I reclaimed from abandon and ruin

and thatI called my home at times when I was here

and at times whenl was somewhere far from here

this time I have not come to reclaim anything

but to move nothing and to touch nothing

as thoughlwere a ghost or here in a dream

andl know it is a dream that has no age

in this dream the same river is still here

the house is the old house and I am here in the morning

in the sunlight and the same bird is singing

我又回到了老房子

我以為我熟悉了大半生

我把這棟房子從廢棄和廢墟中收回來

我在這里的時候有時會給家里打電話

有時當我在遠離這里的某個地方

這次我不是來索回任何東西的

但是什么也不要動，什么也不要碰

仿佛我是一個幽靈或者在做夢

我知道這是一個不分年齡的夢

在這個夢里，同一條河還在這里

房子還是老房子，我早上在這里

在陽光下，同一只鳥在歌唱

Notes

1.lifetime 一生，終生

2.reclaim 要求歸還；回收

3.abandon 放任，拋棄

4.ruin 毀壞，毀滅；殘垣斷壁，廢墟

5.touch 觸摸，碰

6.ghost 鬼，幽靈