Ayo Ayoola-Amale [Nigeria]
Frozen (and other two poems)
I have been the sane hermit, still
dragging on nicotine walls
swallowing sunrise through my dark lungs
I’d been
scrubbing heaps of laundry
clocking rounds pounding fufu
like am a pounded refuse, among the dumpsters
echoed in a tumultuous blast
of cracked arms that hang
in a bandaged cell
broken,
empty,
gone astray partner
in a frozen lake
turning out tortures like breathing
I knew you the dope burn
flogged in the wind with knives clinging to my skin,
planting bombs spilling from your mouth
real like life itself
only because
I’m a woman
watching sunset in a jailhouse:
Give me the truth.
Give me the truth.
Ode to Friendship
That you could be THIS HUMAN
to lend an ear in the forests
when fire tears through a thousand summers’
That you could be this human
to make a smile
when mountains crack the sun
of the seasons.
That you could be this human
to share the laughter
of beautiful springs on a frozen lake
And be so glad to lend a hand
in a hut full of snow,
to always listen
in storm clouds tight rage.
That you could be this moment, true and deep-
TO ME.
That you could be this time
is pure gold.
Air Clots
What’s a polar bear?
dinosaur: Maybe it’s a comet slammed on Mother Earth?
Our wildfires, wildfires strung with a
huge asteroid.
Is the earth needed?
Here the stalling sunlight. A mountain struck every tree.
Is the sea needed?
Only the volcanos, the plastics, fossil fuels.
You, I, all of us? Can we see the Dodo bird?
Who owns the fur, the oil? Who's talking about Sea Cow?
Pandas may be seen in picture books only.
We see Giraffes exit like Labrador duck,
Like mountain locusts, like golden toads, like passenger pigeons
A dying ecosystem, a pandemic of sickness. Me and You.
Yes. Soon, Elephants will only be seen on discovery channels.
Nukes and bereavement far and wide.
crooked pesticide,
roots, trunk shattered
ice broken into floods, the leaves failed.
The cycle, the sounds of cannon
storm worse
a salad of hectares of
poisoned vegetables sprayed
glyphosate
and, GMO fields in plastic bowls
as yam porridge.
For now,
we still have our arteries looted.
阿约·阿尤拉-阿迈勒[尼日利亚]
冰冻（外二首）
我向来是个神志清醒的隐士，仍
在满是烟渍的众墙之上拖曳着步子
我的漆黑之肺吞下日出
一直以来
我都在搓洗成堆衣服
时针转动，鼓捣着馥馥糕
就像砸碎的垃圾被扔进垃圾箱
回荡着噼里啪啦的巨响
支离的双臂，悬挂
在一间缠满绷带的牢房
破碎的、
空洞的、
误入歧途的伙计
浸在冰湖里
磨难不断，如同呼吸
我知道，你是风中燃烧的
毒品，刀子紧贴着我的皮肤
炸弹从你的嘴中不断涌出
真切如同生活本身
只因为
我是个女人
在监狱里守望日落：
予我真相。
予我真相。
友谊颂
或许你能成为这样的人
去林间倾听
那火焰撕碎的万千个夏日
或许你能成为这样的人
当众山击碎四季的
太阳
你只微微一笑。
或许你能成为这样的人
将春日的欢笑，撒在
冰封的湖面上
又从一座雪中小屋里
欣然伸出手来
你总是在风云密集中
聆听狂怒之声
或许那一刻，我能感到
你的真实与深刻
而此时，你或许
熠如真金
结凝的空气
什么是北极熊？
恐龙说：也许是颗彗星砰地撞上了地球母亲？
我们的野火，一颗巨大的小行星
引发的野火
还需要地球吗？
失控的光照。山罢了工，树木不再生长。
还需要大海吗？
唯有火山、塑料、化石燃料尚存。
你也好，我也罢，我们所有人，还能再见到渡渡鸟吗？
谁坐拥毛皮、石油？谁还在谈论海牛？
熊猫只在图画书中。
我们看到长颈鹿像拉布拉多鸭一样消散，
山间蚱蜢如此、金蟾蜍如此、旅鸽亦如此
垂死的生态系统，泛滥的疫病。我和你。
是啊。快了，大象也快只会出现在探索频道了。
遍地都是核武器，到处充斥着丧亲之哀鸣。
变态的化学农药
喷洒在树根、树干上
寒冰融成洪水，树叶凋败纷纷。
循环着的，是大炮的声响
愈加恶劣的风暴
喷满草甘膦的数公顷有毒蔬菜
被做成沙拉
还有呢，把转基因作物装在塑料碗里
当作山药粥喝下
直至此时
我们虽还活着，却仍在历经浩劫。
（赵曼博士 译；Tr. Dr. Zhao Man）
About the author
Ayo Ayoola-Amale is a Nigerian poetess, born in Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria on May, 21st, 1970. Ayo is a performance poet, visual and mime artist, playwright, and storyteller. She is a multiple award-winning peacebuilder, and poet committed to Artistic Activism and to lifting the essential role of creativity in peace-building and conflict transformation. She is the founder of Splendors of Dawn Poetry Foundation and the Muse of Peace and Poetic Harmony. Ayo was on the 2017 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) panel and session on “How do the arts contribute to sustainable peace?”
She is the author of six volumes of Every Child’s series of Poems, and Nursery Rhymes. Her recent works include The Suns Came for Us, Where the World Sings, Life Script, and The Weight of the Rat’s Nest, art shows on gender-based violence, corruption, disarmament, and killer robots amongst others. She has been a guest poet at national, and international poetry festivals and literary events in Africa, Europe, America, and Asia. Her poems have appeared in several international and national anthologies, journals, and magazines, and have been translated into major international languages. Ayo is the vice president of Poet of the World and a founding member of Poets of the Planet. She is on the Editorial Board of the multilingual literature magazine ARIEL and the e-zine ARIEL-ART. Ayo was a member of the international coordinating committee of the World Poetry Movement (WPM) and was the Editor of Poetry Planetariat. She was the Legal Advisor of the Ghana Writer’s Association.
作者简介
阿约·阿尤拉-阿迈，尼日利亚女诗人，1970 年 5 月 21 日出生于尼日利亚高原州乔斯。阿约是一位行为诗人、视觉和哑剧艺术家、剧作家以及短篇小说家。她是多元的和平建设者、艺术行动主义诗人，致力于在和平建设和冲突转化中发挥创造力的重要作用。她是 “黎明诗歌基金会”（Splendors of Dawn Poetry Foundation）和 “和平缪斯与诗歌和弦”（Muse of Peace and Poetic Harmony）的创始人。2017年，阿约曾参加德哥尔摩国际和平研究所（SIPRI）关于 “艺术如何促进可持续和平”论坛。
阿约著有《每个孩子的诗歌和童谣系列》六卷（Every Child’s series of Poems）以及《》（Nursery Rhymes）。她的近期作品包括《太阳为我们而来》（The Suns Came for Us）、《世界在何处歌唱》（Where the World Sings）、《生命脚本》（Life Script）和《鼠巢之重》（The Weight of the Rat’s Nest），以及策划了关于性别暴力、腐败、裁军和机器人杀手等问题的艺术展。她曾在非洲、欧洲、美洲和亚洲国家的国际诗歌节和文学活动中担任客座诗人。其诗作曾多次刊登在在多个国际国内的选集、期刊和杂志上，并被翻译成主要国际语言。阿约是 “世界诗人 ”（Poet of the World）组织的副主席， “地球诗人 ”（Poets of the Planet）组织的创始成员之一。她还是多语言文学杂志ARIEL和电子杂志ARIEL-ART的编辑委员会成员，世界诗歌运动（WPM）国际协调委员会成员、《诗歌行星》（Poetry Planetariat）的编辑等。此外，她还担任加纳作家协会的法律顾问。
