談偏愛

我對有可能發生的特別偏愛，
他想──不要說不出的，
冷淡無情，易於放棄
及按捺怒氣或蹂躪
性情的
不要客觀的，
要那徘徊於這裏的，
位於「我」的開端
與「我們」聆聽之間，
或是於未完成
時態與張力中
表達永恆的
抽象的掲示
及含糊的時間
這一切我都擁有
亦正因此我永遠
難於完成任何東西，生活
猶如是永無止境的翻譯

（何麗明 譯）

On Being Partial

I’m partial to what’s possible,
he thought－not the ineffable,
distant, devoid of insistence
and temperament that tampers,
or tramples
Not the impersonal,
but that which hovers here
between the "I'' of the opening
and the "us" of your possible listening
now, or in the imperfect
tense and tension of what
in fact articulates the eternal
That abstract revelation
and slippery duration
to which, it seems, I’m given
and because of which I’m never
finished with anything, as though living
itself were an endless translation