A New Year - Helen Goldbaum (U.S.)

抄寫及攝影：張卓蓉

A New Year Helen Goldbaum (U.S.) 

 

Not like a ball thrown from the hand, 

But the slow breathing of a cherished sleeper- 

The fortunes of the world go up and down. 

 

This is a grey-haired year, much spoken of in prophecy, 

But not one to be lived. We 

Inscribe a date half monstrous and half real- 

Surely beyond our time; 

 

Once again those 

Briefly consoled, walk in the snow as hunters.

 

——“Poetry”(1943)