"First Kiss" by Tim Seibles

譯者: 至磊Zi Le 黃Ng 審譯者: Bruce Sung

First Kiss

〈初吻〉

Her mouth

她的嘴

fell into my mouth

貼在我的脣間

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

就像夏日的雪

就像第五個季節

就像起初的伊甸園

like Eden when Eve made God

就像上帝創造夏娃時

whimper with the liquid tilt of her hips—

伊甸園都為她臀的曼妙而嗚咽──

her kiss hurt like that—

她的吻就有那麼痛──

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

我是說，她如同把天使的汗水摻入了

with the taste of a tangerine,

橘子的滋味

I swear. My mouth had been a helmet forever

我發誓，我的嘴一直是一頂頭盔

greased with secrets, my mouth

塗滿了秘密，我的嘴

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

是一條死巷子，被牙齒稍微照亮

我的心，一顆蛤蜊

slammed shut at the bottom of a dark,

在黑暗下猛然闔上

but her mouth pulled up like a baby-blue Cadillac

但她的嘴開上來 像一輛淡藍色的凱迪拉克

packed with canaries driven by a toucan—I swear

載著金絲雀，由巨嘴鳥駕駛──

我發誓

those lips said bright wings when we kissed, wild

在我們接吻時 那雙脣如同一雙耀眼的翅膀

狂野且細緻

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

彷彿她在教導海馬說話

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

她的嘴是如此小心翼翼 把第一個母音從我的喉嚨誘釣出來

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

直到我的大腦變成一臺鋼琴 大聲作響，像那樣被錘打——

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

我發誓，她的舌頭就像土衛七──

hot like that, hot and cold and circling,

熱烈如它，冰火交加，旋轉著

circling, turning me into a glad planet—

旋轉著，將我轉變成 一顆快活的行星──

sun on one side, night pouring

太陽在一邊，夜晚傾注而下

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

她的手緩慢地放在另一隻上： 一手是火，放著另一手的風箏

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

她的吻，我發誓──

如果偉大的母親趕著打開月亮

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

就像打開禮物，而你在那裡感受

你的影子終於從你的手腕解下

unhooked from your wrist.

That’d be it, but even sweeter—

就是這樣，但甚至更甜蜜——

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

就像裝有義肢的牧師 在彈跳桿上，向上、向上

this way and this, not falling but on and on

這樣子，這樣 沒有落下，但一直向上跳

like that, badly behaved

就像那樣，做出不佳的行為

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

但卻神聖——我發誓！ 那個吻：雙脣都完全投入

to the world like a Peace Corps,

到像和平工作團的世界

like a free store, forever and always

就像免費商店，永遠且總是

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

一個新城市——

沒有鎖，沒有牆，只有門——

就像那樣，我發誓

like that.

就像那樣