I am a lake

I am a lake, my poem is an empty boat,

and my life is the breeze that blows

through the whole scene

 

stirring everything it touches--

the surface of the water, the limp sail,

even the heavy, leafy trees along the shore.

 

--from MY LIFE, written by Billy Collins

我是一個湖,我的詩是一艘船

我的生命是拂過湖面的微風

吹動

湖面、帆

還有岸邊茂密的樹.