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一个消失多年的人
查理斯·斯米克
深夜的游廊余热未去
偶然想起一个邻居
虽然那已经是三十年前
她晚餐后出去散步
便再没回到丈夫和孩子们身边
如今没人记得她
除了她忽然微笑和开始沉思的模样
然后便不再出声
被人问起时,仿佛她已将心事隐匿
或者只是她那颗从未拥有过的心,碎了
THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED
Charles Simic
Now that it’s warm to sit on the porch at night
Someone happened to remember a neighbor,
Though it had been more than thirty years
Since she went for a little walk after dinner
And never came back to her husband and childen.
No one present could recall much about her,
Except how she’d smile and grow thoughtful
All of a sudden and would not say what about,
When asked,as if she already carried a secret,
Or was heartbroken that she didn’t have one.
——选自《纽约客》2014年4月7日刊
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