# 诗情（译）

[**Poetics**](https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2016/02/05/a-r-ammons-poetics-2/)

by [A. R. Ammons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Ammons)

I look for the way\
things will turn\
out spiraling from a center, \
the shape\
things will take to come forth in\
我找寻那些方式\
事物转换\
螺旋渐开于中心点\
形状\
一些事物即将呈现

so that the birch tree white\
touched black at branches\
will stand out\
wind-glittering\
totally its apparent self:\
那白桦的白\
会触摸那些黑于纤枝\
即将突显\
萦绕的闪亮的\
全然表面的自己

I look for the forms\
things want to come as\
我找寻那些形式\
事物试图成为的

from what black wells of possibility, \
how a thing \
will unfold:\
从可能性的黑井之中\
一个事物是如何\
伸展开来

not the shape on paper — though\
that, too — but the \
uninterfering means on paper:\
虽然不是形状出于纸上\
那也分明是\
纸上没有干扰的含义：

not so much looking for the shape \
as being available \
to any shape that may be \
summoning itself \
through me \
from the self not mine but ours.\
真不是找寻那些形状\
可用的形状\
任何那形状它如果可以\
召唤自己\
通过我\
来自于自己却不是我，而是我们

— from [Collected Poems](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/a-r-ammons): 1951 – 1971, by A. R. Ammons

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