文摘精选《初放的玫瑰》

草地兔

    作者：艾勒•赛道夫   来源：《意林》杂志

　　那些初放的玫瑰，把我带回理智。

　　一切暴怒，在房后长满水藻的池塘

　　被我放下水，像纸船一样。

　　起初苍白，进而桃粉，后来血红。

　　修剪它们，你可能很残忍。

　　可能很残忍，而我需要这种残忍。

　　顶着红尖尖的翠枝

　　这些绝不是茨冠。

　　既不预兆什么，也不暗示什么。

　　一旦给养，它们便会生出枝丫：

　　一个夏季能长两茬。

　　一茬有紫罗兰和果香，另一茬

　　燃起烈焰，草坪上一簇翻滚的唇瓣。

　　My first roses brought me to my senses.

　　All my furies, I launched them like paperboats

　　in the algaed pond behind my house.

　　First they were pale, then peach andblood red.

　　You could be merciless trimming themback.

　　You could be merciless and I needed that.

　　Emerald green with crimson tips,

　　these were no crowns of thorns.

　　They would not portend nor intimate.

　　But if you fed them they’d branch out:

　　two generations in a single summer.

　　One had a scent of fruit & violet,the other

　　blazed up, a flotilla of lips on thelawn.