黑夜給了我黑色的眼睛
夏日酷熱
藉由我影子的雙眼
我觀看世界
遮掩雙耳
我的視力變得銳利
滾開！
影子命令我
像后稷一樣
我拿起弓
射下這酷日
在過去的凝視下
我的影子和我
是孿生兄弟：
我夢盡我的生命
而他仍保有心跳
English Translation:
Dark Nights Give Me Black Eyes
summer heat
I see through the eyes
of my shadow
ears folded
my vision sharper, more focused
move!
the shadow commands me
like Ho Yi
I take the bow
to shoot down the blazing sun
under the gaze
of the past, my shadow and I
are twins:
I dream away my life
while his heart still beats
Originally accepted for publication in Atlas Poetica, #7 (Special Focus on Tanka in Translation); forthcoming in Broken/Breaking English: Selected Poems of Chen-ou Liu
(Note: Ho Yi, a legendary Chinese hero, comes to earth to shoot down nine of the ten suns that are burning up the earth at the same time)
