春 秧
細如針尖的秧苗
繡在冬天灰色的背景上
單薄的綠意
怯生生的綠意
1970年春天走近,又走遠
立夏、小滿
田野裡老了一片片麥子
芒種過去,夏至
春秧漸漸長成了水稻
1970年的春秧稚氣十分
推後20年再看春秧
豐韻猶存,春秧是一個村姑名字
這個梳著小辮子的名字
我一直記到了今天
The Rice Seedlings
Rice
seedlings fine as needles
were
embroidered against the grey background
of the
Winter: Faint and timid green.
The Spring of
1970 came and then faded.
Then the
Summer Day began,
followed by
the Day of Lesser Fullness
when the
wheat turned yellow and plump.
The Day of
Grain in Ear passed, and then
the Summer
Solstice came.
The Seedlings
grew tall plants of rice.
A village
girl, naïve and beautiful in 1970,
was named
after Seedling.
After 20
years, her charm remains.
Seedling,
girl with braids,
even today
your impression lingers
deep and tall
as rice.