Song Zhuangzhuang
SNOWMAN
Big snowfall in town.
In an acupuncture clinic,
five doctors in white
sit around drinking tea.
No patients at all.
Outside it’s white far and wide.
One of the white-coats
builds a small snowman
on the window sill
and sticks a needle
in the snowman’s butt.
The white-coats are laughing,
each gets a needle in,
finishing their
work for the day.
1/19/19
Translated by MW, Febr. 2019
(This video is a performance of a different poem from the one below. Please click for English translation of the video.)
SPOTTED DOG
all those heads, barking
midnight under the tables outside
a spotted dog, dozing
at midnight
wantonly he let me take off his spots
so like a naked mademoiselle
stretching four unadorned legs to the heavens
2004
Tr. MW, April 2014
车前子
斑点狗
那些头脑，狂吠
午夜露天酒桌下
瞌睡的一条斑点狗
在午夜
让我肆无忌惮地擦去斑点
它多像小姐脱光
素面朝天的四条腿
2004
从新世纪诗典（第一季），伊沙编选
GESCHECKTER HUND
diese köpfe, kläffend
mitternacht, unter den tischen im freien
döste ein gescheckter hund
um mitternacht
ließ er mich hemmungslos seine punkte entfernen
eine nackte mademoiselle
streckte vier blanke beine gen himmel
2004
Übersetzt von MW im April 2014
