into the blue, again

你

不請自來，想你的念頭在腦子裡逗留得過晚，

我只好上床睡覺，沉沉沉沉夢到你，醒時帶著你的名字，

像是淚，柔軟而鹹，在我唇上，那清亮音節的聲響

像一個護身符，一句咒。 

掉進情網

是迷人的地獄；踡伏著焦灼的心

像是預備好行兇的老虎；火焰在我膚下狂熱的舔舐。

你漫步進入我的生命，大於我的生命，如此美好。

我躲藏在平淡的日子，在例行工作的長草，

在我偽裝的屋子裡。你在我凝視中匍匐前進，

回望我，從任何一張臉，從一片雲的形狀，

從那消瘦的，為地球而昏亂瞪著我的月亮

當我打開臥室門。窗簾微微騷動。你就在

床上，像是件禮物，像是一個可以觸及的夢。

YOU

Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my heart,

So I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,

Like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables

Like a charm, like a spell.

Falling in love

Is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart

Like a tiger ready to kill; a flame’s fierce licks under the skin.

Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.

I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,

In my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,

staring back from anyone’s face, from the shape of a cloud,

from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me

as I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are

on the bed, like a gift, like a touchable dream.