Karen Kun’s Translation #13 - from Kerri Shying R’s “White Matter Disease”

Kerri Shying R # 64.1 White Matter Disease ( after KK Fairytale)

Karen Kun’s Translation #13 - from Kerri Shying R’s “White Matter Disease”

腦白質病變

(寫於客遠文的“童話”後)

一堆木柴等待著

在派對中

被燒掉

我們正尋找走失的詩人

我的房子裡

（總是）有東西遺失

我努力卻總事倍功半

所以

我撿起詩人

把他們

跟其他的東西

打成一片

亂七八糟的

各有不同的一群

閒聊著

糾纏著

從這

移到那

走到另一個房間

當訪客到來

終於

在沙發床底下

找到

剛出土的詩人

他們戳開文件櫃

華麗地姍姍回到休息室

一個走失的詩人

如何落到了柴堆裡 燒掉

我們還不得而知

White Matter Disease

 ( after KK "fairytale")

There was a pile of firewood waiting to be burnt

for the party

we were looking for the lost poets

(always) in this house of mine

something lost

the faster I go the less it gets done so I tend to pick up

poets and mingle them

with other things 

all unlike

 the higgledy-piggeldeys

all in shifting stacks

carried while talking

into another room

eventually we find them

when visitors come to stay

they are

unearthed

beneath the sofa beds

poking out of filing cabinets

beguiling the way back into a rotation

in the lounge

how that one lost poet got in that woodpile

and was burned

still escapes us all