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假如你的媽媽沒有嫁給你的爸爸

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我母親可能就嫁給

來自茲敦斯卡·沃拉的茲比格涅夫·B·先生

他們若有個女兒——不會是我,

也許比較會記名字和臉孔,

任何旋律一聽不忘,

擅長分辨鳥類,

化學和物理成績優異,

波蘭文較差,

卻偷偷寫詩,

一出手就比我的詩迷人許多。

差一點點,

我父親可能就在同一時間娶了

來自紮科帕內的雅德維加·R·小姐。

他們若有個女兒——也不會是我,

也許會比較頑固地堅持立場,

一無所懼地跳進深水中,

容易為集體情緒所感染。

在一些場合總可以立刻看到她,

但鮮少帶著書本, 更常在操場上

和男生一起踢球。

她們甚至可能相遇於

同一所學校, 同一個班級。

但志趣並不相投,

不同類,

班級合照裡隔得遠遠的。

站過來, 女孩們——

攝影師會這麼喊——

矮得在前, 高的在後。

我說笑一個時就開心地笑。

再清查一次人數,

都到了嗎?

——是的, 全員到齊。

作者 / [波蘭] 維斯拉瓦·辛波斯卡

翻譯 / 陳黎、張芬齡

翻譯 / 《給所有昨日的詩》, 浦睿文化, 2018

ABSENCE

A few minor changes

and my mother might have married

Mr. Zbigniew B. from Zdunska Wola.

And if they'd had a daughter—she wouldn't have been me.

Maybe with a better memory for names and faces,

and any melody heard once.

Adept at telling one bird from another.

With perfect grades in chemistry and physics,

and worse in Polish,

but secretly writing poems

instantly more interesting than mine.

A few minor changes

and my father might at that same time have married

Miss Jadwiga R. from Zakopane.

And if they'd had a daughter—she wouldn't have been me.

Maybe standing her ground more stubbornly.

Plunging headfirst into deep water.

Susceptible to group emotions.

Always seen in several spots at once,

but rarely with a book, more often in the yard

playing kickball with the boys.

They might even have met

in the same school, the same room.

But not kindred spirits,

no affinities,

at opposite ends of class photos.

Stand here, girls

—the photographer would call

shorter girls in front, tall girls behind.

And big smiles when I say cheese.

But one more head count,

that's everyone?

—Yes sir, that's all.

Wislawa Szymborska

估計誰都有過這麼“中二”的想法吧, 如果你的媽媽沒有嫁給你的爸爸, 那麼你會在哪裡?你是在這個世界上“缺席”了嗎, 還是以其他形態分別寄宿在你的父親和母親的其他可能的子女的體內?當這些實際上並不相干的人因為某種機緣巧合, 相聚在一起, 那時的你是否等於已經“在場”, 或者“全員到齊”, 還是你就是“機緣巧合”本身?而不巧的是, 他們卻沒有結婚。

薦詩 / 何信步

2018/04/14

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題圖 / Eduardo Pedro

第1860日值守 / 祭祀、流馬、顏大人

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