the panther 豹
his vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. it seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
隔著不時掠過的鐵欄，他的目光
已變得如此疲倦，再無法
承受哪怕一眼。似乎面前
有千條欄桿;而欄桿之后別無他物。
as he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
他強韌的腳步靈巧地回旋，
在狹小的空間踱步不止，
仿佛某種祭祀之舞圍繞著一個中心，
在中心一個偉大的意志眩暈。
only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly—. an image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.
只有時眼簾無聲地撩起——
一幅圖像從瞳孔浸入，
穿過凝神僵立的軀體
投入心靈，又最終化為烏有。
