A Huge Pill
大顆藥丸
桌上，一張我兒子從法國南部寄來的
風景明信片。The Midi，
他是這麼說。晴空朗朗。漂亮的別墅
種滿著秋海棠。不過
他快撐不住了，需要救命錢。
旁邊，一封
我女兒的信說她家老爺，
那個嗑速狂，在客廳裡
拆解摩托車。
她跟孩子們，
只靠燕麥過活。看在老天的份上，
能否幫幫她？
然後還有一封我媽的信
不只有病還腦袋有洞。
她說她在世的時間
已經不長。拜託幫她
最後一件事好嗎？我可不可以買
棟房子送給她？
我走出去。想要到
墓園去散散心。
可是天色驟變。
烏雲，巨大而飽脹的灰暗，
彷彿就要裂開。
這時候郵差從車道上
轉進來。一張
蜥蜴般的臉，黏濕光滑老謀深算。
他抄起手臂---像要砍人！
有郵件。
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+ 瑞蒙卡佛短詩試譯 第一編 炙火
- Drinking while driving 駕車時飲酒
- IOWA summer 夏日愛荷華
- Looking for work 人求事
- Cheers 乾杯
- Bankruptcy 破產
- The blue stones 藍石
- Hamid Ramouz (1818-1906) 哈密-拉穆茲
- Your dog dies 你的狗死了
- Luck 運道
- Photograph of my father in his twenty-second year
- Rogue river jet-boat trip, Gold beach, Oregon, July 4, 1977
- At night the salmon move 鮭魚夜游
- For Semra, with martial vigor 給姍拉，好戰的活力
- Highway 99E from Chico 從齊哥發出的99E高架道路
- Poem for Dr. Pratt, A lady pathologist
- Not far from here 離這兒不遠
- This room 這個房間
- Torture 折磨
- You don’t know what love is
- Balzac 巴爾札克
- RHODES 羅德島
- Sudden rain 驟雨
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- Deschutes River 戴蘇德河
- The current 暗潮
- Trying to sleep late on a Saturday morning in November
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- Forever 永遠
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- Fear 畏懼
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- Where water comes together with other water
- Still looking out for number one
- Locking yourself out, then trying to get back in
- At least 至少
- Energy 磁場
- Medicine 藥方
- Rain 晨雨
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- The old days 舊時光
- Happiness 喜悅
- Our first house in Sacramento
- The Grant 應允
- The poem I didn't write
- Next Year 明年
- My Daughter and Apple Pie 女兒與蘋果派
- The fishing pole of the drowned man 溺斃者的魚竿
- A walk 散步
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- Ask him 你問他
- To My Daughter 寫給女兒
- Next door 隔鄰
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- Wenas Ridge 威拿嶺
- Hominy and Rain 玉米渣與雨
- 火爐，以及鐮刀
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- Radio Waves 無線電波
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- Yesterday, Snow 昨日之雪
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- The Catch 上鉤
- The Cranes 鷺鷥
- A Poem Not Against Songbirds
- Reading Something in the Restaurant
- Harley’s Swans 哈雷的鴻鵠
- Elk Camp 獵鹿營
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- Music 音樂
- The windows of the summer vacation houses
- The hat 帽子
- A Haircut 理髮
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- Afghanistan 阿富汗
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- My death 我的死
- In a Marine Light near Sequim, Washington
- 高加索傳奇
- To Begin With 第一件事
- Eagles 老鷹
- My Work 我的工作
- The Trestle 木架橋
- Late Afternoon, April 8, 1984
- For Tess 給泰絲
- The Juggler at Heaven’s Gate
- This Morning 這個早晨
- What You Need For Painting
- An Afternoon 一個下午
- Circulation 血液循環
- The Cobweb 蛛網
- Balsa Wood 巴沙輕木
- The Projectile
- The Car 車
- The Mail 郵件
- The Autopsy Room 解剖室
- Where They’d Lived 他們住過的地方
- Memory [2] 記憶[2]
- Stupid 荒唐
- Union Street: San Francisco, Summer 1975
- Bonnard’s Nudes 波納爾的裸畫
- Jean’s TV 今吟的電視機
- Mesopotamia 美索不達米亞
- The Jungle 叢林
- Hope 寄望
- The House behind This One
- Limits 上限
- The Sensitive Girl 敏感的女孩
- The Minuet 小步舞
- Egress 出口
- Spell 一陣狂亂的天氣
- From the East, Light 東方，晨光
- A Tall Order 想得美
- The Author of Her Misfortune 造成她不幸的人
- Powder-Monkey 火藥猴(填火藥的少年)
- Earwigs 耳夾蟲
- NyQuil 夜寧(感冒藥水)
- The Possible 有可能
- Shiftless 不排班
- The Young Fire Eaters of Mexico City
- Where the Groceries Went
- What I can do 我所能做的
- The little room 小房間
- Sweet light 甜美微光
- The Garden 花園
- Son 兒子
- Kafka’s watch 卡夫卡的錶
- 快如閃電的過往
- Vigil 守夜
- Cinderella 幸德瑞辣
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- Sandy 珊蒂(repost)
- Ann Shang 暗香
- Strange Day and Night 奇日異夜
- Numbers 明牌
- 我的1997
- One minute 一分鐘
- Analog to digital 從安那洛到遞輯投
- Happy 快樂
- One day in Manhattan
- Easter dinner 復活節的晚餐
- Ill 病2001
- Gym talk 03'
- Repeat the fault 喜怒和哀樂/有我來重蹈你覆轍
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- 近日讀蔣介石生平概略
- Unfinished in Paris 巴黎未完稿
- Qui, Je suis a Paris 1, 2
- Qui, Je suis a Paris 3
- Qui, Je suis a Paris 4
- Qui, Je suis a Paris 5
- Qui, Je suis a Paris 6
- Qui, Je suis a Paris 7, 8
- Qui, Je suis a Paris 9
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- Qui, Je suis a Paris 16
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- Qui, Je suis a Paris 19
+ 第二編 兩水合流之處
+ 第三編 Ultramarine 群青
+ 卡佛短篇小說翻譯
+ 女人們
+ 醫師處方
+ Page 6 1/2
+ 喂。喂。這裡是巴黎
+ 該吃藥了
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