a translated Danny Gentile by Cui Yuwei

13#

Written by Danny Gentile

method lost to

the unmethodical

a greased wheel

slips out of joint

and the darkness

is an arras behind

which the unobserved

stands unrelated

not a night darkness

of leftover light

but the hidden concession

of a sealed room.

If the machine

remains unseen

is it working?

perhaps we’ll never know

we are all too busy

waiting in the forest

for the next example

listening again for

the same tree to fall

13#

丹尼·金泰尔 (trans. Cui Yuwei)

方法败给

没有方法

上过油的轮子

滑出接口

黑暗

是一张挂毯

在它后面未察觉的

彼此无关

不是残余的光里

夜的黑暗

而是在密室中

隐藏的妥协。

假如看不到

机器

它仍在运行吗？

或许我们永远无从得知

我们都太忙碌

在森林里守候

下一个例子。

再次聆听

同一棵树倒下