从女孩的耳朵里

A man reaches close

一个男人缓缓靠近

and lifts a quarter

并举起25美分，

from inside a girl’s ear,

她的手里擒着一只鸽子

from her hands takes a dove

不知道在那里。

she didn’t know was there.

什么更让她吃惊，

Which amazes more,

你可能疑惑：

you may wonder:

四分之一的锯齿状杂音

the quarter’s serrated murmur

对抗拇指

against the thumb

还是一只鸽子用指关节轻叩的寂静？

or the dove’s knuckled silence?

他发现了它们，

That he found them,

或者她从未拥有过，

or that she never had,

或者在葡萄牙，

or that in Portugal,

这相同的半停的时刻，

this same half-stopped moment,

几乎是黎明，

it’s almost dawn,

还有一位坐着轮椅的女人

and a woman in a wheelchair

整唱起法朵歌

is singing a fado

整个房间都充满活力

that puts every life in the room

在一架天平上，

on one pan of a scale,

另一面，

itself on the other,

铜碗也保持平衡。

and the copper bowls balance.