一種藝術(shù)

失去的藝術(shù)不難掌握；

如此多的事物似乎都

有意消失，因此失去它們并非災禍。

每天都失去一樣東西。接受失去

房門鑰匙的慌張，接受蹉跎而逝的光陰。

失去的藝術(shù)不難掌握。

于是練習失去得更快，更多：

地方、姓名，以及你計劃去旅行的

目的地。失去這些不會帶來災禍。

我丟失了母親的手表。看！我的第三座

愛屋中的最后一座、倒數(shù)第二座不見了。

失去的藝術(shù)不難掌握。

我失去兩座城，可愛的城。還有更大的

我擁有的某些領地、兩條河、一片大洲。

我想念它們，但那并非災禍。

——即使失去你（戲謔的嗓音，我愛的

一種姿勢）我不會撒謊。

顯然失去的藝術(shù)不算太難掌握，

即使那看起來（寫下來?。┫褚粓鰹牡?。

作者 / [美國] 伊麗莎白·畢肖普

翻譯 / 包慧怡

One Art?

by Elizabeth Bishop

?

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;

so many things seem filled with the intent

to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

?

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

?

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:

places, and names, and where it was you meant

to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

?

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or

next-to-last, of three loved houses went.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

?

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,

some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

?

— Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture

I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident

the art of losing’s not too hard to master

though it may look like (Writeit!) like disaster.