The middle of a kiss, and though he opened

一次亲吻中，尽管他嘴张得

up wide and wider, her own small jawbones gave

越来越大，她小小的颌骨

a little crack and stuck, and look what happened:

却轻轻碎裂而僵住，看啊发生了什么：

as if she’d fallen in an open grave,

她仿佛掉进一座敞开的坟墓，

he swallowed her at last, and then she wandered

他最终吞下了她，而她迷失

in a dark saturated country where

在一个黑暗潮湿的国度

the red land throbbed with capillaries under

那儿的红土地随毛细血管跳动

electric stars. A kiss had brought her there,a

在带电的星星下。一个吻带她到此处，

simple kiss that rained and filled her head

一个头脑简单的吻如雨砸下，令她

with blood, a nightmare kiss, a wrong man kiss;

血涌上头，一个噩梦之吻，一个不搭调男人之吻；

why had she kissed a man with such a mouth,

为什么她吻的男人有这样一张嘴巴，

with such thick teeth and jaws, such tongue, instead

这样粗壮的牙齿和下颚，这样的舌头，而不是

of kissing someone who would let her out,

一个会让她感到自在的人，

kissing someone nicer, who ate less.-

一个更细致的人，没这么贪吃。