In Those Years
Adrienne Rich

In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to

But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I



那些年
【美】艾德里安娜·里奇   
人们说，那些年我们搞不清
我们和你们的意义
我们发现我们
被简化成我
因此整件事情变得
愚蠢、好笑又可怕：
我们一直设法过着自己的生活
是的，那是我们能够忍受
且目睹的唯一一种生活
然而黑暗的历史巨鸟尖叫着扑进
我们的私人处境
它们也朝别处飞，但它们的喙和翅膀沿着
岸边，穿过迷雾
我们站在迷雾中，说着“我”

赏读佳作~，兆康~~