ANT PATHS 
          蚁路
 格林 菲利普斯

你们在散发刺鼻气味的黑色残骨上
急走，四处奔走忙碌
让我想起四岁时的梦境

笈着便鞋的双脚有巨大的力量
我在后院的尘路上迈着大步
遇到了你们的路

看见你们专心致志地 从
火热的环形蚁穴来来往往
于蚁路上

我站在蚁路与后院尘路
交叉处 观看
你们背负碎叶片，

裸露的种子，挣扎的被俘
的蜜蜂。突然，我顿足
或许为了看谁会第一个
从尘路上闪开。那是我。
2004/1
果河子译

ANT PATHS

Scurrying black skeletons with acrid
odours, you ran hither, thither
across my four-year-old dreams.

In my sandaled feet of gigantic power
I stalked our backyard dust path
and came across your paths too.

Saw you so earnest in endeavours
back and forth in your roadways
from the seething annular nest.

So I stopped where your trail
intersected mine. Observed you
burdened with leaf fragments,

naked seeds, a struggling captive
bee. Suddenly I stamped my sandal
perhaps to see who would be first
to draw aside from our paths. It was me.

Glen Phillips
© January 2004.
AMAZING

I’ve survived until now,

when you look about,

I mean, amazing!

As usual there’s wars

in one gulf or another.

Afghanistan’s on fire

Lebanon’s mostly ash

another inundation takes

a thousand or a thousand thousand

somewhere in a delta, lowlands,

islands just above salt shallows.

Amazing I’m alive ’til now,

like a frog  that’s dived in a pool

with a sound like water.

©Glen Phillips
July 2003

惊诧之极

到现在我还活着，
你看看四周，
我的意思是，惊诧之极！
从一个海湾到另一个海湾
战争依旧。
阿富汗在燃烧
黎巴嫩大部分沦为灰烬
而洪水在侵袭
成千上万的土地：
三角洲，低地，
咸咸的浅滩上岛屿。
惊诧之极，到现在我还活着
像只青蛙扑通一声跳入池中。
03/6
格林 菲利普斯现在是澳大利亚作家协会终身荣誉会员（WA），凯瑟林 苏珊娜 普里查德基金会名誉秘书，国际笔会（佩思）会员，澳大利亚作家与彼得卡文作家中心管理委员会成员。主要诗集：《叶之祭》（1988），《爱之歌，情之影》（1991）等。