The first time I worked through here

我第一次在这里干活

--see how little I knew– first gorge

──瞧我多么没见识──在利文斯敦岭以西

West of the Livingstone Range, I was calling

第一个峡谷，我朝着獾洞里

Into badger holes, poking sticks down the throats

叫喊，把棍棒捅入这些窄口子里

For Irish monks.

寻找爱尔兰僧侣。

Pitted, pine snow a vinegary bulge against wet rock

At 5,000 feet, burnt trees to the top,

松雪满是麻点，如同湿岩暴戾的膨胀，

Turtle Mountain, from Lost Creek Fire, sun

五千英尺高，乌龟山，直到峰顶

A fingernail scrape in bachelor kettle aluminum,

都是在洛斯特溪大火中烧毁的树木，太阳

And through it, the mountain’s pig neck and back

是单身汉铝壶上一道指甲刮痕，

Appeared to move.

而透过它，山的猪颈和背

Now rain bloom bear-sways up

似乎在移动。

The blade of the north hump.

Dendrites – they lived in trees, another crew

现在过云雨黑熊般摇摇摆摆

Rode bulls.

晃上北山的锋刃。

Each would light candles below the tilting night of soil.

树枝石──它们住在树里，另一群僧侣

Sheep came down from the snowline.

骑着公牛。

The mountain, half of it fell away, 1903,

Seventy killed in the valley,

每个人都会在这倾斜的土壤之夜底下点燃蜡烛。

Northeast face, a diamond mark sickening between its horns.

绵羊从雪线走下来。

The women stayed back

这座山，崩掉了一半，1903，

On the Pike Lake acreages, living out of converted grain bins,

把七十人活埋在山谷里，

Herding a common drawer of knives.

东北之脸，两角之间一个凶恶的菱形标志

I came through here, Blackfoot country,

女人们留在

And took it up, the bad-angled company of dead people,

派克湖畔，靠改造的谷仓里的食物过日子，

My ear slipped in and took the teat

把餐刀赶入一个共用的抽屉。

In the bedroom of glaciers, it was looking for the Angel, the Twin.

我经过这里，黑脚族土地，

并接纳这群怪模怪样的死人，

我的耳朵溜进来，在冰川的卧室里吮吸奶头，

它正在寻找那个天使，那个双胞胎。

题解：此诗的说话者是酒神狄奥尼索斯，在诗中被称为外地人，他想跟这新地方的幽灵为伴和说话，因此不可避免地要与死人交谈。作者把这座山想像成一头公牛，有些公牛额前有斑，或菱形标志。说它凶恶是因为这座山就快崩塌，导致很多人死亡。 “耳朵……吮吸奶头”，意思是狄奥尼索斯把自己当成冰川的幼儿，让冰川把他养大。