在文字無國界網站（Words Without Borders: Home）看到這首伊朗詩人暨電影導演菲羅柯查德（Forough Farrokhzad）寫的詩，忍不住把它翻成中文，介紹給大家。菲羅柯查德被視為是波斯文學史上最知名的女性之一，出生於德黑蘭的一個中產家庭，17歲結婚，20歲離婚，從此未再婚，此後過著獨立自主的生活，將生命投注在詩創作與執導電影。詩風大膽、才華洋溢，她的詩允為抗議詩，藉由揭露來抗議，揭露什麼呢？揭露女性的內在深處；女性的私密、情慾、哀愁、抱負，有時也藉由沈默發聲。她的詩對身體與情緒的裸露描述，是波斯女性作家作品所欠缺，這使得她備受爭議。她在1967年因一場車禍身亡，時年32歲。
這首詩的英譯者Sholeh Wolpe也是一位名家。
Connection 結合
The black of my irises,
those simple, reclusive Sufis of mine
swooned in the song-spell of his eyes.
those simple, reclusive Sufis of mine
swooned in the song-spell of his eyes.
我黑色的虹膜，
我素樸、隱居的蘇菲
暈厥在他雙眼的懾魂歌聲。
I sensed him billow all around me,
radiating towards infinity
to the other side of life
like fire’s red pyramid,
like a cloud in spasm of rain,
like a sky embraced
by warm seasons’ breath.
我感覺他浪濤的包圍，
往無限放射
到我生命的彼岸
像火的紅色焰錐，
像雲欲雨的痙攣片刻，
像天空被緊緊擁在
溫暖的季節呼吸裡。
I sensed that in the breeze
of his hands’ movements
the substance of my being
was disintegrating.
I sensed his heart peal inside mine
like the bell of a wandering sorcerer.
在微風裡我感覺到
他雙手的移動
我整個人
開始解體。
感覺到他的心在我心轟隆
像一個流浪巫師的鈴響。
The clock took flight.
The curtain withdrew with the wind.
I had pressed him to myself
inside the halo of that fire
and I wanted to say something
but to my astonishment
his thick shadowing lashes
released themselves like silk strands
from the base of darkness
along desire’s long trail
and through the tremor
—that deathly tremor—
to the end of my end.
時鐘逃亡。
帘子偕風撤退。
我緊擁住他
在那火的光環裡
正當我要開口時
卻猛然震驚於
他濃黑的睫毛
有若絲線般解開
從黑暗的底部
沿著慾望長長的路
經由震顫
──那致命的震顫──
到我邊界的終點。
I sensed my release.
I sensed my release.
我感覺到我的釋放。
我感覺到我的釋放。
I sensed my skin crack from love’s dilating joy,
as my flaming mass melted slowly
and flowed, streamed and flowed
into the moon,
a turbulent blurry moon
drowned in a ditch.
我感覺到我的肌膚因愛膨脹的喜悅裂開，
我巨大的火焰慢慢融解
然後湧流、傾注、湧流
進月球，
一個騷動模糊的月球
溺水在一個溝渠中。
We had cried into each other.
We had madly lived a moment’s
ephemeral union inside one other.
We had madly lived a moment’s
ephemeral union inside one other.
我們尖叫進入彼此。
我們瘋狂活在短暫的
你中有我、我中有你的瞬間結合。
你中有我、我中有你的瞬間結合。
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