《有时我这样回乡》| 双一
那本厚厚的书
二十年前我郑重其事地翻开
密密麻麻的方块字
犹如严密防守的卫兵
神情傲慢如我之人
全被拦在城外
直到二十年后一个异邦
当我的眼神已常常低垂
额头与两鬓也染上了霜
那古老书中的每一页
都变成柔软温热的湿巾
我将满是尘土的脸埋进去
扑进阔别已久的故乡
2018/06/30
Sometimes I Return Home This Way
by Shuang Yi
That thick book
I opened it twenty years ago with care.
Those crowded square characters
were like security guards on high alert.
People with prideful faces like mine
were all banned from entering the gate.
Till twenty years later in a different State,
when I often lower my eyes,
and my hair has picked up some gray,
each page of that old book has become
a soft warm and wet towel,
into which I bury my dirty face,
like running back home so long apart.
