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崔舜華,有詩集《波麗露》、《你是我背上最明亮的廢墟》、《婀薄神》、《無言歌》,散文集《神在》、《貓在之地》、《你道是浮花浪蕊》。曾獲吳濁流文學獎、林榮三文學獎、時報文學獎等。

Tsui Shun Hua

崔舜華

臺灣

I am lost in that city's inter-region
Alien are those newly smelted road names and buildings
They were born just now
Lime plaster and blood membranes cover their skins

Alien are those complex pulsating underground arteries
Watchmen in yellow raincoats
Eternal strange variations
I can't even tell a freshwater sea
From a glass of sad tequila

I pass through Fongshan—Zuoying—Lingya
Through half a lifetime's hunger, sickness, old age, glory, beauty
Rejuvenated magicians roam hither and thither
They occupy the streets happily
Asking me to move along
You shouldn't turn back unless you have to

"Walk straight for 500 meters at the next traffic light
You will step onto a long road of happiness
Along with hundreds of tons of small diamonds haze that imagines the future..."
Turn left if you seek victory; turn right if you seek virtue
I stop and wait
Turn and head upward
Giving way to the weak and lonely 
Kind passersby, how will you
Forgive me for squandering my youth away?

Each time I moved to another city
It was always summer
It was always raining
I can never tuck away those meandering lanes and halls
I look up at the floors above out of the corner of my eyes
Reset network positioning, delivery address
Do the one-person stretching of household cleaning
Physical dews are in that city's morning markets
Each drop is hot and lively

I get lost each morning awakened in a strange land
Has it been this far since the last destination?
So distant like this city's never-ending spring
Like the endless dream of the eternal night under your eyes

Translated by Yok-Him Devn

Homecoming

我在彼城的區間帶迷了路
我不認識那些新鎔的路名與樓景
它們剛剛誕生
肌膚布覆泥灰與血膜

我不認識那些錯織搏動的地下管脈
黃雨衣的巡守人
永恆的陌生變奏
我甚至不能分辨淡水海
與一杯傷心的龍舌蘭

我經過鳳山——左營——苓 雅
走過半生的飢寒病老 風光美貌
挽頹回春的魔術師四下遊蕩
他們快樂地占領街頭
要我往前走
除非必要 不該回頭

「下一個路口紅燈,直行五百米
妳將步上漫長的幸福路
伴隨數百噸想像未來的碎鑽霾……」
求得勝者向左 欲立德者往右
我停步 等待
轉乘上行
禮讓鰥寡孤殘 
善良的過路人你們將如何
如何原諒我這樣虛度青春?

每一回越城遷徙
總遇上夏季
總遇上雨
我永遠不能收納那些曲巷穿堂
眼角餘光向上攀延七八九樓
重新設定網絡定位 收件地點
搬練居家清潔的單人柔軟操
彼城早市有肉身露水
滴滴生猛似火煉

每個異地醒來的早晨我都迷路
距離上一次終點已經這麼遠了嗎?
遙遠得像這城市永不完結的春天
像你眼底這永夜夢未央

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