九月

文晓村

产妇的脸

贴于阵痛之后的大地

不知道

她在沉思什么？

金风发发

枫叶红着脸

莫非为丰收

多饮了几杯菊花酒？

斜阳下  是谁？

伴一只慢飞的鹭鸶

从田野间

归去

没有人愿意去想

浪藉异乡的吟者

是第几枝

失落的茱萸？



September

Wen Xiaocun

The face of the woman in labour

Is close to the ground after the throes

What she is thinking about?

We wonder

The autumn wind is quite strong

The maple leaves are red on the face

Is it that they have drunken a little too much of chrysanthemum wine

In celebration of the bumper harvest?

Who was it

That accompanied a slow flying egret

In the setting sun

Going back from the field?

No one would like to think

What missing member of the family

Was the ballad singer

Wandering in alien land