信
高桥睦郎
（日本）
田 原
译
写信
给你写信
可是，在我写信的时候
明天读信的你
还尚未存在
你读信时
今天写了信的我
业已不复存在
在尚未存在的人
和业已不复存在的人之间
的信函存在吗？
读信
读你的来信
读业已不复存在的你
写给尚未存在的我的信
你的笔迹
用蔷薇色的幸福包裹着
或者浸泡着紫罗兰的绝望
昨天写信的你
在写完的同时
是放弃存在的光源
今天读信的我
是那时没有存在过的眼睛
在不存在的光源
和没有存在过的眼睛之间
的信的本质
是从不存在的天体
朝向没有存在过的天体
超越黑暗送到的光芒
这样的信存在吗？
读信
昨天不存在
今天也不存在
遥远明天的他读着
没有今天的昨天的你
写给没有昨天的今天的我的信
接受着蔷薇色幸福的反射
或者被紫罗兰绝望的投影遮住
不存在的人
写给未曾存在的人
另一个未曾存在的人眺望的光
从无放射到无
折射后，再投向另一个无
光所越过的深渊
它真的存在吗？
TheLetter
Takahashi Mutsuo
(JPN)
I am writing a letter
addressed to you.
But
as I write,
you who will read the letter
don’t exist yet;
and when you read the letter,
I who wrote it
won’t exist anymore.
A letter suspended
between someone who doesn’t existyet
and someone who doesn’t existanymore -
does it really exist?
I am reading a letter
written by you who don’t existanymore,
and addressed to me who didn’t existyet.
Your handwriting wraps me up
in rosy happiness
or
plunges me in violet despair.
You who wrote the letter
are a light-source that ceased withthe letter.
And I, reading the letter today,
am an eye that didn’t exist backthen.
The essence of a letter between
a non-existent light-source
and a non-existent eye
is light transmitted throughdarkness
from one non-existent sphere
to another—
but does it really exist?
He will read your letter.
He who didn’t exist before,
and doesn’t now,
but who belongs instead to a far-offtime.
And as he read the letter
from you who don’t exist anymore butdid,
the letter you wrote to me whodidn’t exist then
but do now,
he will catch a reflection of rosyhappiness
or
be eclipsed by violet despair.
Light emitted
from someone who doesn’t exist
to someone who didn’t yet,
and viewed by someone else again whodoesn’t
yet exist,
that is to say, light emitted fromnothing to nothing,
refracted and forwarded to yetanother nothing,
the nothingness that the light beamsacross -
does any of it really exist?
