甘查尔：在沉默中

                
                
咪咪•卡阿尔瓦蒂，伊朗裔英国当代诗人。
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甘查尔：在沉默中
咪咪•卡阿尔瓦蒂
随它们去吧，你打的那些仗，到沉默里。
掩埋你的耻辱，你以为最糟的，到沉默里。
最终我的爱人和死亡讨价还价。
“就再一天”是她在沉默中买的那颗珍珠。
在夜晚她听铁匠锤打着锁链，
在晨曦锯子、烟火锤打进沉默。
我犯的唯一的错是活得太久，
我的爱人的双眼在沉默中告诉法庭。
她新幼得像奥尔迪贝赫什特月，
我出生的那月，跃到半中的春天陷入沉默。
我的爱人，在棕榈叶的隐蔽下，
是个女孩，我在沉默中寻找的母亲。
孤独不识数学。日子溜走，
太阳一天天升起日光中的月亮在沉默中变形。
她腕上的钟声是沉默，她的手指
像她带来的冰薄荷酒一般冰凉。
“咪咪琼！咪咪琼！”我爱人的声音
爬上三个陡峭的音节好让眼泪阻停在沉默中。
三个同等重量的音节，同等的强度，
掉进一口井中，在沉默中一直落不到底。
Ghazal: In Silence
Mimi Khalvati
 
Let them be, the battles you fought, in silence.
Bury your shame, the worst you thought, in silence.
At last my Beloved has haggled with death.
'One more day' was the pearl she bought in silence.
At night she heard the blacksmith hammering chains,
at dawn the saw, the fretwork wrought in silence.
'The only wrong I've done is to live too long,'
my Beloved's eyes tell the court in silence.
She's as young as the month of Ordibehesht,
month of my birth, spring's mid-leap caught in silence.
My Beloved, under the shade of a palm,
was the girl, the mother I sought in silence.
Loneliness is innumerate. Days slip by,
suns rise that daylight moons distort in silence.
The bell on her wrist was silent, her fingers
ice cold as the julep she brought in silence.
'Mimijune! Mimijune!' My Beloved's voice
climbs three steep notes for tears to thwart in silence.
Three syllables of equal weight, equal stress,
dropped in a well, keep falling short in silence.
注：
【1】ghazal: (in Middle Eastern and Indian literature and music) a lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music.
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【2】Ordibehesht，奥尔迪贝赫什特，伊朗历的第二个月，四月开始，五月结束，共31天。