玫 瑰 沈 苇

从蔷薇、月季中将它分辨出来

花去我整个年少时光

从火焰和血液中将它分辨出来

花去时光微温的灰烬

里尔克墓碑上“纯粹的矛盾”

博尔赫斯“柏拉图式的花朵”

罗马狂欢节，从埃及和西西里

运来一船又一船红玫瑰

连同女人倒进帝王的浴池……

我想起遥远和阗的玫瑰巴扎

大马士革小刺玫瑰在绞肉机中

粉身碎骨，变成暗红色花酱

绿洲尘土飞扬，一瓶穆塞莱斯中

鸽子血和28朵玫瑰在沉浮……

所有玫瑰，是可以证实的想象本身

所有玫瑰，我只能拯救出其中一朵

一朵就够了！而且我已厌倦阐释

过度的阐释伤害了世上的玫瑰

于是，在渐冷的灰烬中，我写下：

“玫瑰不是别的，玫瑰就是玫瑰。”

选自《诗刊》

Roses

by Shen Wei

Learning to differentiate you from baby roses and tea roses

has consumed my entire youth,

to secern your hue from flame and blood

further consumed the remaining warmth of my days.

You showed up as “pure contradiction" on Rilke's tombstone,

as "platonic flower" in Borges’ verse,

and arrived as shiploads of red roses

from Egypt and Sicily for the Roman Carnival

to adorn the emperor’s bath filled with women . . .

I remember the rose gala in faraway Hotan,

where small-thorn roses of Damascus were fed through a meat grinder,

bodies and bones crushed, to return as crimson flower sauce,

and, at a dust-swirling oasis, a bottle of Musalles wine

was infused with pigeon blood and 28 roses floating in it. . .

Roses are imaginations themselves but undoubtable.

Of all roses, I am able to save only one.

One is enough! And I'm weary of critiques.

Excessive interpretation harms the roses of the world.

Therefore, in the cooling ashes of my days, I write:

“Rose is nothing else; a rose is a rose.”

沈苇，浙江湖州人，曾在新疆生活30年，现居杭州。著有诗集《沈苇诗选》、散文集《新疆词典》、诗学随笔集《正午的诗神》等20多部。获鲁迅文学奖、华语文学传媒大奖、十月文学奖、刘丽安诗歌奖等。作品被译成10多种文字。

Translated by Duck Yard Lyricists

Duck Yard Lyricists is a group of devoted poetry lovers: Meifu Wang, Michael Soper, & Guy Hibbert.

本诗由 PATHSHARERS BOOKS（美国同道出版社）

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编辑：王傲霏, 二审：曼曼，终审：金石开

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