我喜欢看你在花园里劳作
穿紫色泳衣，背对我：
我最喜欢你的背部，
离你的嘴最远。
你应该想想那张嘴。
还有你除草的方式，割断
地面的草
而不是连根拔起。
我得告诉你多少次
草是如何蔓延的，你那深色
一小堆有什么用
平整表面，杂草最终
反被你完全隐藏。看着你
凝视空旷地，在整齐的
菜园行间，表面上
努力工作实际上
做了可能最糟糕的事情，我想
你是个烦人的紫色小东西
我想看着你从地球表面消失
因为我生活中的所有问题因你而起
但我需要你，并且我要拥有你。
（林木译）
Purple Bathing Suit
Louise Glück
I like watching you garden
with your back to me in your purple bathing suit:
your back is my favorite part of you,
the part furthest away from your mouth.
You might give some thought to that mouth.
Also to the way you weed, breaking
the grass off at ground level
when you should pull it by the roots.
How many times do I have to tell you
how the grass spreads, your little
pile notwithstanding, in a dark mass which
by smoothing over the surface you have finally
fully obscured. Watching you
stare into space in the tidy
rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly
working hard while actually
doing the worst job possible, I think
you are a small irritating purple thing
and I would like to see you walk off the face of the earth
because you are all that's wrong with my life
and I need you and I claim you.
