春 秧

 

細如針尖的秧苗

繡在冬天灰色的背景上

單薄的綠意

怯生生的綠意

1970年春天走近,又走遠

 

立夏、小滿

田野裡老了一片片麥子

芒種過去,夏至

春秧漸漸長成了水稻

 

1970年的春秧稚氣十分

推後20年再看春秧

豐韻猶存,春秧是一個村姑名字

這個梳著小辮子的名字

我一直記到了今天

 

The Rice Seedlings

 

Rice seedlings fine as needles

were embroidered against the grey background

of the Winter: Faint and timid green.

The Spring of 1970 came and then faded.

 

Then the Summer Day began, 

followed by the Day of Lesser Fullness

when the wheat turned yellow and plump.

The Day of Grain in Ear  passed, and then

the Summer Solstice  came.

The Seedlings grew tall plants of rice.

 

A village girl, naïve and beautiful in 1970,

was named after Seedling.

After 20 years, her charm remains.

Seedling, girl with braids,

even today your impression lingers

deep and tall as rice.