诺贝尔文学奖得主安妮·卡森 译诗

大荒流

倒行
译者/云生
母禁回头步，幽冥踵后行。
身亡皆裂肺，目视但吞声。
殉爱前缘误，含悲隔世萦。
讹传因错译，一叹恨难平。

【英文原诗】
Short Talk on Walking Backwards
My mother forbad us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.