蛾在腋下產卵，然後死去

　　《蛾在腋下產卵，然後死去 A Moth Laid Its Eggs in My Armpit, and Then It Died 》是收藏於《島嶼或大陸 ISLANDS OR CONTINENTS》盒裝叢書裡，此叢書由十八本袖珍版詩選組成，分別收錄來自十八位國際著名詩人的精選作品。

作者簡介

葉覓覓
　
　　台灣詩人， 東華大學創作與英語文學研究所、芝加哥藝術學院電影創作藝術碩士。以詩錄影，以影入詩。夢見的總是比看見的還多。每天都重新歸零， 像一隻逆流產卵的女鬼或鮭魚。著有詩集《漆黑》與《越車越遠》。
 
　　Ye Mimi is a Taiwanese poet and filmmaker. A graduate of the MFA Film Studio Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is the author of two volumes of poetry, most recently The More Car the More Far (Taipei: Garden City Publishers). A bilingual chapbook of her poems was recently published by the Anomalous Press in 2013 under the title His Days Go by the Way Her Years.
 

盲目約會把他荒廢

背景是鹹酥的碧綠。他們的憂傷都井在一起。一些櫻桃變成玻璃。
她的右手像蘇打餅。擴散的指纹在空氣裏低鳴。

春天被撐開的時候\他們正盲目約會\他手裏握著一陣雷\她閉上
眼睛像是一個空位\有人彈響音樂\有人端來焦糖咖啡\有人遞送
黑夜\他輕輕捏出紫白的雷印\她覺得寂寞好美好滋味\決定繼續
把他荒廢

A Blind Date Makes Him Dilapidate
The backdrop was a salty crisp deep green. Their gloom welled into one
accord. Some cherries turned to glass.
Her right arm smacked of soda cracker. Proliferating fingerprints puled in the air.

Now that Spring’s propped up and filled to bursting \ they’re plump in the middle of their first blind date \ he clasps a clap of thunder in his hand \ she closes her eyes like a vacant space \ someone is playing music \ someone is carrying a caramel latte \ someone is delivering the night \ he deftly pinches up a purplish white thunderprint \ she’s come to feel that solitude’s so beautiful so savory \ she decides to prolong him in his dilapidated state

(Translated by Steven Bradbury)