时空本色（Sex in Space Time）

Mari-Lou Rowley

from Viral Suite (Anvil Press, 2004)

译者：郑中（Zheng Zhong）

 

Consider the curve of space

the swell of a breast, the concave

bowl of belly pooling droplets of sweat.

打量空间的曲线

乳波荡漾，腹部凹形的

杯儿，积满微小的汗滴

 

It's as simple as this, Einstein said

think of gravity as geometry, not

a force to be reckoned with.

她如此纯朴，爱因斯坦说

引力可视为几何，不是

一种不可忽视的力量

 

A body freely falling

through the vacuum of space

would chart a straight line

across the star-spangled night

if not for the mass of flesh rock water earth

curving space-time, holding satellites

and fragments of shuttle

in its nest of orbit.

让身体自由坠落

经过真空

绘出一条直线

穿越璀璨的夜空

若非因肉体、石头、水、土的质量

弯曲了时空，托着卫星

而航天飞机的碎片

进入它轨道的温床

 

For the same reason the earth revolves around

the sun, a hand falling through any arc of

air will choose the swelling mass of thigh

over nothing, for warmth

for meaning.

因同样的理由，地球围绕太阳

一只手落下，滑过空中的弧线

将改变大腿鼓起的质量

超越虚无吧，为了温暖

为了意义

 

Sex, gravity, quantum theory

are merely the play of

matter and energy, radiating

waves of photons dancing here and there

the pull and swell of bodies

in motion.

性，引力，量子理论

不过是

物质和能量的表演

光子辐射波到处狂舞

身体的吸引和鼓起

在运动

 

注释：

Einstein's general theory of relativity links the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time in a dynamic cosmological continuum. Unfortunately, this theory, which provides a theory of gravity, does not incorporate the uncertainty of quantum mechanics and the wave-particle duality of matter. Finding a quantum theory of gravity and reconciling macrocosm with microcosm is one of the greatest challenges in physics.

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