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假如口亥口恩口亨破了

--[泰國] Zakariya Amataya (1975-  )，羅浩原 轉譯自英譯

假如口亥口恩口亨的母音受損

我如何告訴別人

那條大路通往何處？

我有辦法告訴別人

我來自何處？

我何時到達？

和我的心之所欲嗎？

為何口亥口恩口亨會破？

倘若沒有口恩口亨的話，

我還有辦法寫詩嗎？

我的詩，

還會是一首詩嗎？

假如我寫一首關於河流的詩，

水還會流進讀者的眼中嗎？

寫一首關於叢林之蛇的詩

有什麼詞可以形容

灼灼蛇眼中的火光？

那遙遠的天際上的仙人掌

我又如何能望見？

當一首詩在沙漠中迷失，

我真該修好口亥口恩口亨

不然的話

我口乾舌燥的詩就無法咳嗽*了

不過…這應該無妨

因為我的心將永遠是我的心

沒錯吧？

* 英譯原註：「咳嗽」的泰文(‘Ai)寫作「ไ」，也是標示泰語母音「Ai-Mai-Malai」的字母。

轉譯自英譯本：

Zakariya Amataya,Tom Radzienda, ed., Preeyaporn Charoenbutra & Sunida Supantamart, trans., No Women in Poetry, Bangkok: 1001 Nights Editions, 2010,

pp.88-91.

If Ai-Mai-Malai were Broken

--Zakariya Amataya, translated by Preeyaporn Charoenbutra & Sunida Supantamart

If the Ai-Mai-Malai vowel were impaired

How could I tell people

Where that highway leads?

Would I be able to tell people

Where I am from?

When I arrived,

And what I desired?

Why would Ai-Mai-Malai be broken?

Suppose there were no Mai-Malai,

Would I still be able to write a poem?

My poem,

Would it still be a poem?

If I wrote a poem concerning a river,

Would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader?

For a poem concerned with a snake in the jungle,

What word could portray

The fire in the eye that blazes?

The cactus on the horizon so far away

How would I be able to see it?

When a poem gets lost in the desert,

I would have to repair the Ai-Mai-Malai

Otherwise

My parched poem would be unable to cough*

But …it should be alright,

For my heart will always be my heart,

Or not?

* ‘Cough’ in Thai (‘Ai) is spelled with‘ ไ ’ or the Ai-Mai-Malai vowel (Translator).