Axes

斧头

After whose stroke the wood rings,

落处，树木钟鸣丁咚，

And the echoes!

回声起伏荡漾!

Echoes traveling

空谷传声

Off from the center like horses.

像骏马四面八方奔驰。

The sap

树液

Wells like tears, like the

像泪泉涌，又彷佛

Water striving

一石击破的池水

To re-establish its mirror

奋斗着挣扎着重展

Over the rock

水面的平镜，岩石

That drops and turns,

漂浮下沈

A white skull,

一块白骷髅

Eaten by weedy greens.

被水草侵蚀腐朽。

Years later I

好多年过后我

Encounter them on the road—-

又同他们不期而遇

Words dry and riderless,

平瘪的语言像没有骑主的马

The indefatigable hoof-taps.

蹄声得得，孜孜不倦地扣击着地面。

While

而从一潭池水底，万古不变的星辰

From the bottom of the pool, fixed stars

主宰着人生

Govern a life.