David Mason and Cally Conan-Davies’s Poems, translated by Anna

David Mason, American poet, former Poet Laureate of Colorado. He teaches at Colorado College. His poetry, prose and translations have appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, Agenda, Modern Poetry in Translation, The New Criterion, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, The Irish Times, and The Southern Review.

Turn

The sun’s gone to Australia.
The moon’s half-hidden face
is facing her from here

and so they see each other
from separate hemispheres.
The earth in love with both

turns in sleep and waking
forsaking nothing ever,
and longing like a river

blindly finds the sea.
And now the leaves are blowing
the grass turns brittle brown,

yet somewhere in Australia
earth is waking now.
The moon’s half-hidden face

grows open in the dawn,
the bare trees loose the doves,
the blossoms sway with song.

Everything is dying
even as it lives
and surely as it loves.

by David Mason

轮换
 

太阳去了澳大利亚。
月亮半隐藏的脸
从这里对着她

所以在隔离着的半球
他们互相看到对方。
爱着双方的地球

轮换着睡眠和清醒
不曾想要抛弃什么，
思念像一条河

盲然地找到大海。
而现在落叶纷飞
草变得脆弱棕黄，

但在澳大利亚某处
地球正在苏醒。
月亮半隐藏的脸

在黎明中敞开，
光秃的枝桠鸽子放飞，
花丛伴着歌儿舞动。

一切将要死去
即使它还活着，
诚然它还爱着.

 Cally Conan-Davies