Macrocarpas
Michael Jackson (迈尔克.杰克逊)
Those most assailed trees
that go with rack and torn barbed wire
for don"t we stack
such dog season stuff
always under a macrocarpa.
Always the roughest corner of
the farm， someone has worked his anger off
hacking at trees
so that like crabs
their pincers cut
They claw the northwest gales.
In macrocarpas there is no delight，
only the blown fleece
on a broken fence
magpies scatter
Across the plough； scarfed
and splintered when words were not enough
the revving saw
and the axe
do for them now.
狗木树
译者 / 黎翠珍
那些惯经雨打风吹的树
总是给支上什物架挂上钩铁丝
可不是，我们经常把
这一类的旧破烂
堆在狗木树根旁。
往往在农庄上最糟的
角落里，谁发了脾气
就把树乱砍一阵子
像螃蟹
给斩断了螯，
那枝条一把抓向西北风里。
狗木树没有什么赏心乐事，
只有破篱笆上
挂着吹扬的羊毛，
喜鹊飞散
越过耕地；割出痕，
撕成片，话音未落，
就哗啦啦拉大锯
再加斧头
要它们全完蛋。
