An Amber
By Cheng Lie
I dreamt of an amber
the blood-red quickly made the night even more profound.
Seemed to be in a moment, on the compass of time
night and day had passed fifty million cycles.
Through that prehistoric forest
beyond brown roots and clay
two hundred big trees were decadent
but the other hundred thousand still untouched.
A beetle consuming rhythmically
it came by the waves,
marching at that same instant as dusk or early morning
life updated as well as a prayer.
A melted pine resin became concluding remark of the road
the pace of a marching person, instantly fixed in the air,
firmly configuring the sequence of death
quietly, time waited in the small kingdom of amber.
(however, I am the very one who forgets;
I am the rock that fills the universe
--before the god of darkness closes his scroll
please let me be the Moon's Goldsmith.)
I know nothing will be here that called equilibrium
that can counteract coherence from the universal universe
--without the so-called Heaven and Hell, the only thing
we can choose, is just to wander around the world.
2005/ translated by Chen Zihong
琥珀
程烈
我夢(mèng)見(jiàn)一只琥珀
血色迅速抬高夜晚的深度。
似乎是一個(gè)剎那菌羽，在時(shí)間的羅盤上
夜與晝已經(jīng)度過(guò)了五千萬(wàn)個(gè)循環(huán)花吟。
穿過(guò)一片史前的森林
在褐色根塊與黏土之間
兩百棵大樹(shù)已經(jīng)頹廢
而十萬(wàn)棵仍然完好寸宵。
一只甲蟲(chóng)有節(jié)奏地消耗著
它乘著波浪而來(lái)在孝，
行進(jìn)在黃昏或清晨同樣需要的時(shí)刻
生活更新如同禱告。
一枚熔化的松脂成為道路的終點(diǎn)
一個(gè)前進(jìn)者的步伐运沦，瞬間在空氣中定格击孩，
時(shí)間堅(jiān)韌地排出死亡的序列
它靜候在琥珀的國(guó)度。
（然而挟冠，我才是遺忘于购，
我才是填滿宇宙的頑石
——在黑暗之神合上他的卷帙以前
請(qǐng)讓我成為月亮的金匠。）
我知道這里并沒(méi)有一種均衡
能夠免除萬(wàn)能的宇宙所帶來(lái)的向心力
——沒(méi)有天堂和地獄的所謂知染，我們唯一
能夠選擇的肋僧，僅僅是人間的徘徊。?
2005年
