第1544期：小区有个人

小区里有个妇女

五十好几的年纪

养了十几只狗

大小不同 品种各异

不知什么来历

There is a woman in my neighborhood

well in her fifties

She has a dozen dogs

of different sizes and breeds

No one knows what’s the story

她每天下楼遛狗

阴晴寒暑无阻

狗每天都一样

不多不少 不吵不闹

心外无物地想心事

She walks her dogs every day

throughout the years, rain or shine

The dogs remain all the same

the same number of them – docile and peaceful

as if absorbed in nonchalance

今早我去跑步

又碰见了她和她的狗儿

各自低头 专心吃屎

排着整齐的队

比人还沉默

This morning I was jogging

when I saw her parade of dogs

Each dog was sniffing for excrement –

so devoted so engrossed in a perfect queue

More silent than human beings