艾爾維洞穴 今日份翻譯 略有疲憊 發揮很一般

Ailwee Cave

“It is believed that the Irish brown bear went extinct around 2,500 years ago due to deforestation and loss of habitat to agriculture. It is possible that the bears survived here until more recent times in the mountains and last remaining pockets of forest.” WildIreland.org

Ten thousand years ago a bear settled half a mile

into the earth to sleep undisturbed.

Behind a locked gate to distance tourists

the bones remain, arranged neatly in display,

encircled by under-land scents of pelt and rust.

Ten thousand years ago bears settled deep into the earth,

shape-shifted into memory by the tender form of sleep—

now absent of dream-shadows leached from claws and teeth.

Behind a locked gate to distance tourists, bones arranged

and artfully bleached to conceive an attraction,

what remembrance clings to a history of pelt and tooth

thousand years past when this bear entered a cave

to escape catastrophe? Or, what memories cling to fatigue—

that slow slide of a weakening heart from age, from hunt,

now locked behind a gate to distance tourists?

Though bruises bleached and bone-shafts patched

of jagged holes, the pulse of heart turned to dust and stone,

a thousand years ago a bear settled half a mile into earth

protected now behind a locked gate to distance us all.

艾爾維洞穴

“據信，大約 2500 年前，愛爾蘭棕熊在因人類大肆砍伐森林所造成的栖息地喪失而慘遭滅絕. 又或許，仍有幸存的棕熊躲在群山與零零星星的森林之中，苟活至今。” WildIreland.org

一隻棕熊在萬年前，

入土為安，

深埋在地下半英尺的地方

斯門已封，人迹罕至。

骸骨依存，陳列整齊

毛發變黃,鏽迹斑斑,

地底的氣息,撲面而來。

隻留下酣然入夢的身形,

讓人們追憶曾經的行蹤

它長眠不醒，獠牙與利爪已然不見

斯門已封，遠離塵嚣

骨架被重新擺排, 脫色,

隻為讓人思索，

當年棕熊踏入這個山洞時

是為了逃離什麼災禍?

他的毛皮和牙齒留下了怎樣的記憶？

抑或是某段記憶握住了它的心髒，那顆衰老、疲憊的心髒

那顆随着年齡和狩獵衰老、疲憊的心髒，

大門封鎖，遠離塵器

舊傷已愈，它的骨頭上布滿了鋸齒狀的洞

它的脈搏心跳也已化作塵埃

可我仍記得，一隻棕熊在萬年前入土為安，

大門封鎖，遠離塵嚣