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Live Encounters Poetry & Writing English-Chinese Edition January 2023
There is no place that does not see you, poem by Micheline Maylor.
There is no place that does not see you
after Rilke
Yesterday, no trees demanded insight from me.
And they won’t again today. Therefore, I walk
among them again. Much of life insists,
even small things demand responsibility:
the water bottle commands recycle, melody requests repeat,
even lungs drum time to breath. I weary of this beauty,
but there is no place that does not see you.
The Algonquin make violation of keeping:
bannock always breaks. Greed means obscenity,
and ownership disease. Notice now that lung again,
how villi release, ventilate carbon back to trees.
We’re all in symbiosis here.
We’ll all emancipate our molecules back.
How complicated is that?
from Little Wildheart (the university of Alberta press 2017)
你无处不在
继里尔克之后
昨日，没有树木要求我发表见解。
今天也不会。因此，我又行走
在它们中间。生命大都坚守，
即使小事一桩也要承担责任：
水瓶命令回收，旋律请求重复，
甚至肺叶鼓时生息。这种美丽我已倦怠，
然而你无处不在。
阿尔冈昆人不独享馈赠：
班诺克面包常被撕开分享。贪婪意味卑鄙 ，
和占有恶疾。现在再次留意那肺叶，
绒毛如何释放，将碳排放回树林。
我们都在这里共生。
我们都将把体内的分子释放。
那到底有多复杂？
选自《小野心》（阿尔伯塔大学出版）
Chinese translation © Anna Yin/© Micheline Maylor
米其林·梅尔是2016年-18年卡尔加里桂冠诗人。她最新诗集《坏妻子》（The Bad Wife）由阿尔伯塔大学出版，入选加拿大最佳诗集“雷蒙德·苏斯特”奖长名单，也入围罗伯特·克罗伊茨实验诗歌奖。她参与海象以及TEDX演讲，是卡尔加里图书馆的2016年驻馆作家。2019年她获得阿尔伯塔省诗歌优秀编辑奖。米其林获得纽卡斯尔大学英语语言以及针对创意写作和20世纪加拿大诗学文学的博士学位。
Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Calgary (2016-18). Her most recent book is The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021) which was longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award for best Canadian book of poetry and was short-listed for the Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry. She is a Walrus talker, a TEDX talker, and she was the Calgary Public Library Author in Residence (2016). She won the Lois Hole Award for Editorial excellence for poetry in Alberta (2019). Micheline attained a Ph.D. at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in English Language and Literature with a focus in Creative Writing and 20th Century Canadian Poetics.