Cui Yuwei # 35--"Position"

Position

written and self-translated into Cui Yuwei

The streetlamp casts a dim light on the ground, like a train trailing behind.

I’m now squatting down by a rocking horse, on whose back rides

my daughter, hands firmly with the handles in a wanton ride.

Her lips half asunder, a joyous giggling is unleashed; her eyes

grows invisible, the inky night enclosed inside.

Five meters away Mum sits in a rocking chair, alone. Her limbs

hang down loosely, with a serenity like a statue.

In a flash, as it were, I drift into a vision where I sit in Mum’s position

with the same serenity; my daughter squats in my position, regarding a child

on horseback. Mum is mute, as she is lying in a shroud exactly like how

Grandma is positioned at this very moment.

《位置》

路燈的光線僅在這裏

留下壹片拖尾

此刻我蹲在壹個鐵制彈簧小馬前

眼前的女兒雙手握把

劇烈地搖晃

眼中墨色暈漾

五米之外的雙人搖椅上

我母親獨坐著

四肢垂下

靜得像壹尊雕塑

壹瞬間恍惚地

看見自己

坐在母親的位置

雕塑壹樣靜靜的

女兒蹲在我的位置

守著某個馬背上的孩子

而母親是無言的

她躺在壹塊裹屍布下

就像我此刻的祖母那樣