I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t stay home
where the big dipper rises from, time
and again: one mountain ash.
And I wouldn’t have thought without travelling out
how huge that dipper was,
how small that tree.
(Heather McHugh)
世界上的某个夜晚
如果不是待在家里,我就不会知道
北斗七星从哪里升起,无数次
它们从一棵山楂树后升起。
如果不出去旅行,我也不会想到
那只斗有多大,
那棵树有多小。
(Heather McHugh,xmj 译)
by René Magritte.