After Catullus

 

卡圖盧斯之後

Your ecstatic visions, Leela, I suspect
你的欣喜若狂的願景, 里拉, 我猜一猜
are a hodgepodge of too many new age texts
是一個大雜燴太多新時代文本
and while this shire seems to specialize
而這個郡似乎專門
in fostering the misguided, you take the prize.
培養存在的誤區, 你拿了獎。
I know you deem it dangerous and wild
我知道你認為它危險和野生
to grant us these auguries of your inner child
讓我們這些天真的你的內在小孩
and we are meant to be entranced by each epiphany
和我們註定要由每個頓悟出神
just please, oh please, don’t call it poetry.
只是請噢請不把它叫做詩。

Pete Emptage & Max Ryan

Author: Pete Emptage & Max Ryan

Peter Henry Emptage was born near the Murray River at The Albury Base Hospital. He now lives in Melbourne working as a disability support worker, English teacher and musician. Some of the bands he plays in include: paddock (http://paddock.bandcamp.com/) where were you at lunch (http://wherewereyouatlunch.bandcamp.com), sweets (http://www.sweetsmusic.com/) hello satellites (http://www.hellosatellites.com/) hotel echo (http://www.heidieverett.com.au/) open swimmer (http://www.openswimmer.com/) He is currently chipping away at becoming a constant backyard gardener/real farmer and a translator of poetry into Mandarin, English and Spanish. Max Ryan is from Newcastle, on extended leave in northern NSW, his father’s country. Rainswayed Night won the 2005 Anne Elder Award. A chapbook Before the Sky was joint winner of the 2010 Picaro Poetry Prize. Before we lose each other again, his recording with Melbourne group Where Were You At Lunch, was launched at the 2012 Queensland Poetry Festival.