Peng Wanli translated by Anna Yin

木西（彭万里）中国当代女诗人，任职于湘潭大学。作品发表在中国、美国、加拿大、泰国等多家文学刊物，著有个人诗集《镜子里的火焰》《屐痕》

Muxi (Peng Wanli) is a contemporary Chinese female poet working at Xiangtan University in China. Her work has been published in China, Canada, USA and Thailand. She authored two collections of poetry in Chinese (The Flame in the Mirror and Clogs’ Trace).

星子安娜,加拿大密西沙加市首屆桂冠诗人(2015-2017)，著四本英文诗集，一本《爱的灯塔双语诗集》以及三本翻译诗集。安娜诗歌获北美多个英文诗歌奖，诗歌以及翻译发表在多个国际刊物，被加拿大国家电台，诗歌月和全国公交巡展以及学院选用。安娜在渥太华国会山庄，美国奥斯丁国际诗歌节和加拿大埃尔蒙顿诗歌节表演朗诵诗歌，在学校，学院以及社区讲授诗歌以及翻译。

Anna Yin was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and has authored five poetry collections and three books of translations, including “Mirrors and Windows” (Guernica Editions) in 2021. Her poems/translations have appeared at Queen’s Quarterly, ARC Poetry, New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, World Journal etc. Anna won poetry awards from Canada, USA and China. She has read on Parliament Hill, at Austin International Poetry Festival, Edmonton Poetry Festival etc. She teaches Poetry Alive and hosts workshops about poetry translation and editing etc.

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鱼刺

它卡在我的喉部

不能自拔

就那么一点点

彷佛是从肉里长出来的

一吞咽就哽到它

宿命里遇到某种人

也像这根肉刺

看不得你快活

你一快活

他就出来阻挡

你的自由好像卡在他的手上

我只能用意念

消除这根肉刺

从神的手上借得池塘一口

镶嵌在喉咙处让它游走

Fishbone

It’s stuck in my throat,

Unable to be removed.

Just a tiny bit,

Yet felt growing from my flesh.

Whenever I swallow,

It chokes me.

By destiny, encountering some sort of person

Is like a thorn in the flesh.

They cannot bear your happiness

Whenever you are pleased

They come out to stand in the way.

It seems your freedom is caught by their hands.

I can only use my mind

To remove this thorn.

From God’s hand I borrow a pond

Irrigate into my throat

To let the fishbone swim away.

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逃

让一滴眼泪逃出眼眶

用一道门逃脱威胁

用奔跑逃脱命运的追捕

用一首诗逃脱心灵的绑架

用力量逃脱女人的软弱

用安静逃脱喧嚣

用沉默逃脱心痛

用电话逃向姐妹

用一束光逃脱黑暗

用未来逃脱过去与死亡

Escape

Let a teardrop escape an eye’s trap

Pass through a gate to escape a hasty threat

Run away to escape a destiny’s hunt

Pen a poem to escape the soul’s hijack

Grow strength to escape woman’s weakness

Retain quiet to escape the clamour

Remain silence to escape heartache

Make phone calls to escape to sisters

With a ray of light to escape the darkness

With the future to escape the past and death

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