日光圍巾 SUNSHINE SCARF

                              突然   Suddenly

                       冰雪呼嘯中   snow-laden boughs

                         光禿禿的   stop trembling

                               樹   From afar

                           停止了   chirps of birds

                       嗦嗦的抖動   can be heard

                   有鳥聲自遠而近   drawing nearer and nearer

                       龜縮的脖子   One after another we see

                           一個個   contracted necks

                               挺   straighten up

                               直   and s-t-r-e-------t---c--h

                               伸

                               長

                       我頓時知道   This must be the scarf

               就是這樣的一條圍巾   which lit up

                 在那個寒冷的冬天   Modigliani’s eyes

                     讓老莫的眼睛   and illuminated

                       迸出了火花   Paris sky

                 把巴黎灰暗的天空   that gloomy winter

                           渲染成   a riot of color

                         萬紫千紅

附注:

1.       南方友人來信說：今天我這裡風和日麗,你那邊還是冰天雪地吧，

   要不要我剪一匹陽光給你當圍巾？

2. 法國畫家莫迪里阿尼(Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920) 以擅畫有優美頎長脖子的畫像聞名於世。

*Letter of a friend from the South: “ It’s full of sunshine here today.  I believe your place is still covered with ice and snow.  Do you want me to cut a piece of sunlight and make you a scarf?” 

       2011.10.15披刊於『越南華文文學』第14期