Axes

斧头

After whose stroke the wood rings,

在它将木头敲响以后

And the echoes!

振荡回声！

Echoes traveling

回声外传

Off from the center like horses.

象马儿自中心跑散。

The sap

树汁

Wells like tears, like the

涌出如泪，象

Water striving

水正努力

To re-establish its mirror

重建它的镜子

Over the rock

在岩石上面

That drops and turns,

滴落旋转，

A white skull,

一个白色的头骨，

Eaten by weedy greens.

被蔓延的绿蚕食。

Years later I

多年以后我

Encounter them on the road—-

在路上遇到它们—

Words dry and riderless,

言词干瘪不能驾驭，

The indefatigable hoof-taps.

马蹄轻拍不疲不倦

While

而

From the bottom of the pool, fixed stars

从这水坑之底，不变的星星

Govern a life.

将一个生命统管。