- 1: Anne Sexton 的 The Sickness Unto Death
God went out of me
as if the sea dried up like sandpaper,
as if the sun became latrine.
God went out of my fingers.
They became stone.
My body became a side of mutton
and despair roamed the slaughterhouse...
I did not hear the bird sounds.
They had left.
I did not see the speechless clouds,
I saw only the little white dish of my faith
breaking in the crater.
上帝離我而去。
大海乾枯如砂紙，
太陽成為茅坑。
上帝自我的手指離去。
它們遂變成石頭。
我的身體成為一塊羊肉
而絕望正遊蕩在屠宰場...
我沒聽到鳥鳴。
他們離開了。
我沒看到無言的雲，
只看到小白盤上我的信念
在地表凹陷處碎裂。
2. Emily Dickinson, After Great Pain
This is the Hour of Lead---
Remembered, if outlived,
As freezing persons, recollect the snow---
First---Chill---then Stupor---then the letting go---
這是鉛般的時刻———
記憶裡，如果存活
凍僵的人，回憶著冰雪
首先———寒冷———然後僵直———然後放棄
鐜涢泤