"First Kiss" by Tim Seibles

翻译人员: Cissy Yun 校对人员: Wanting Zhong

First Kiss

《初吻》

Her mouth

她的唇

fell into my mouth

落入我的嘴，

like a summer snow, like a 5th season, like a fresh Eden,

像夏日之雪，像第五个季节， 像最初的伊甸园，

like Eden when Eve made God

像在伊甸园中，夏娃曼妙的翘臀

whimper with the liquid tilt of her hips—

使上帝低声呜咽——

her kiss hurt like that—

她的吻是那般伤人——

I mean, it was as if she’d mixed the sweat of an angel

我是说，就像融合了天使的汗水

with the taste of a tangerine,

与柑橘的甘甜。

I swear. My mouth had been a helmet forever

我发誓，我的嘴永远如头盔，

greased with secrets, my mouth

以秘密滋润，

a dead-end street a little bit lit by teeth—my heart, a clam

我的嘴是一条死胡同， 一点点被唇齿点燃——

我的心就如蛤蜊， 在黑暗底处砰然紧闭，

slammed shut at the bottom of a dark,

but her mouth pulled up like a baby-blue Cadillac

但她的唇如一辆浅蓝色的凯迪拉克， 突然停下，

packed with canaries driven by a toucan—I swear

由翠鸟驱车，载着金丝雀——

我发誓，那嘴唇在我们拥吻时 述说着斑斓的翅膀，

those lips said bright wings when we kissed, wild

狂野而准确—— 好似她在教海马说话——

and precise—as if she were teaching a seahorse to speak—

her mouth so careful, chumming the first vowel from my throat

她的唇齿小心翼翼，啜吮着 我口中那第一声元音，

until my brain was a piano banged loud, hammered like that—

直到我的大脑混沌 若钢琴般锵然激昂，

it was like, I swear her tongue was Saturn’s 7th moon—

就像，我发誓她的舌就是 土星的第七颗月亮——

hot like that, hot and cold and circling,

如此炽热，炽热， 冰冷，旋转，

circling, turning me into a glad planet—

舞动，将我也变成 一颗快乐的星球——

sun on one side, night pouring

一边阳光明媚， 夜晚将徐缓之手

her slow hand over the other: one fire flying the kite of another.

流淌于另一侧： 一簇火 放飞另一簇火的风筝。

Her kiss, I swear—if the Great Mother rushed open the moon

她的吻，相信我——若自然之母 急切地拉开月亮之帘，

like a gift and you were there to feel your shadow finally

就像迫切地打开礼物一样， 而你的暗影终于

unhooked from your wrist.

放开了擒住你的手腕。

That’d be it, but even sweeter—

或许如此， 但更加甜蜜——

like a riot of peg-legged priests on pogo-sticks, up and up,

正如一群装着义肢的传教士 踩着娃娃跳杆，一直往上，

this way and this, not falling but on and on

这样那样，却永不坠下， 一路往前，

like that, badly behaved

像这样，虽然行为不端，

but holy—I swear! That kiss: both lips utterly committed

但是神圣无比，我发誓！ 那吻，完全投入的双唇

to the world like a Peace Corps,

像是和平组织的使者投身于这世界，

like a free store, forever and always

像是免费的商店，永远，永远

a new city—no locks, no walls, just doors—like that, I swear,

在探索一座新城——没有枷锁和高墙束缚， 只有敞开的大门——就像这样，我发誓。

like that.

就是如此。