Saturday, March 27, 2010

no one knows where the night is going...

The Guests
One by one the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The open-hearted many
The broken-hearted few

And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you
I need you now

And those who dance begin to dance
Those who weep begin
Welcome, welcome, cries a voice
Let all my guests come in

And all go stumbling through that house
in lonely secrecy
Saying Do reveal yourself
Or, Why hast thou forsaken me

All at once the torches flare
The inner door flies open
One by one they enter there
In every style of passion

And here they take their sweet repast
While house and grounds dissolve
And one by one the guests are cast
beyond the garden wall

And those who dance begin to dance
Those who weep begin
And those who earnestly are lost
Are lost and lost again

One by one the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The broken-hearted many
The open-hearted few

And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you
I need you now


(仲有歌聽添,sorry,技術問題,招呼唔到,有勞台端自行點擊——)

— The guests / Leonard Cohen

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

古人不見今時月

看月亮,從來不在計劃行程之內
不期遇之,固亦可喜
哪日若再回到這山頭
會,認得你嗎?

Sunday, March 21, 2010

圖說















(鎖滿心願的天階——)

quote and snap

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

– a poet’s advice / e.e. cummings



















(係有d 九唔搭八,不過九唔一定成世跟住八gar...... 即如萍水,點會掛這處相逢呢,當時不解,眼下依然,冇解—)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

glided lights

The Lighted Window
Russell Edson


A lighted window floats through the night like a piece of paper in the wind.
I want to see into it. I want to climb through into its lighted room.
As I reach for it it slips through the trees. As I chase it it rolls and tumbles into the air and skitters on through the night...












(那日見jf,給我看他某些搞作,按jf 說法,是照片把實景拍成水墨;鑑言辨色,也應尊它為achievement 吧。是大師級luu,失敬,失敬。我等久不近朱,離赤也十萬百千丈,不過回來翻看自家adobe album,這湘江夜航,傻瓜機傻下傻下攝得的沿岸滑翔燈色,原來也很光如洗,似水流年丫……)

Friday, March 12, 2010

fractional

既亦一而再,何妨再而三。世界醒來半邊;鳥影橫過。
yup, repetition, (is that you?) for you –

半邊
白萩


世界醒來半邊

便在空中到處宣揚

晴後將雨
雨後仍晴
雨雲都無心飄浮

在鏡中
端詳自己的皮表
在詩中
存寄體認的點滴魂靈

窗上
鳥影
橫過
何時死睡的半邊
將全然蘇醒?














(繼續 angkor replay, 某年某日,上午七點四十分的天光……)

Thursday, March 11, 2010

repetitious

ok, for you, 白萩 encores, why not –

只要晨光醒來
白萩


只要你輕輕地將我們觸及,晨光
只要輕輕地將我們的夢戳破
我們便要醒來,戴上面具
在世界的跟前,做一個無所謂的人

我們有死的愴痛
當鷹鷲滑過天空
影子投在青青的草上
我們要做一個無所謂的人
哈哈大笑戴上面具
在肚子裡流眼淚

只要你從黑暗中醒來
我們便已死去
戴上面具
做一個無所謂的人














(once, angkor wat, at daybreak...)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

sudden whim ...

為了你,也應該得閒就來留幾隻字的。
(你是誰。)
莫問你是誰吧。
(其實都想知。)

現在,這刻,想給你貼些字,一首詩——

可以有好多選擇。但忽然就只想貼它——

廣場
白萩


所有的群眾一哄而散了
        回到床上
去擁護有體香的女人

而銅像猶在堅持他的主義
對著無人的廣場
振臂高呼

只有風
頑皮地踢著葉子嘻嘻哈哈
在擦拭那些足跡


(也莫問我點解。其實都,冇乜好解—— just an impulse, get it?)

Sunday, March 7, 2010

相愛

單親相愛﹕吃早餐
長江一號


有人說,要改變別人,先要改變自己。於是,我嘗試改變自己。
我怎可能讓長江細號明白天地有愛,人間有情,縱使他的父母不是住在一起?長江細號與其他小朋友一樣,喜歡買玩具。對電視、遊戲機、超人、卡通著迷,他經常想著﹕如果我有了這個玩具,我就會好開心。我怎樣知道他有這個想法呢?我不是他肚裏的蟲,我只是反轉來看,如果他要求這些東西而得不到的話,他會不開心。

先要改變自己
有時我也會滿足他的要求。對於這些想了很久的小玩具,每一次,他專注的時間不會多於三天,然後,超人變成失蹤人口,你問他超人在哪裏,他說不知道就算了。這時到我不開心了。我老是想到,一個玩具,用了很多資源、污染了很多河流才製造出來。我不喜歡塑膠玩具,也不喜歡買它們,更加不喜歡原本一百年都不分解的超人,三天就沒有存在的意義。或者,父母不斷買玩具給小朋友,是為了讓他有三天的快樂,或者彌補沒有時間陪伴小孩子一起胡鬧地、hea hea地生活。我覺得,我先要改變自己,才可以改變長江細號迷戀沒有生命的玩具。
我買了一個鬧鐘,二十多年來我沒有用過它。但今天一定要借助它惹人討厭的力量,才可以一步一步改變自己。早上四點鐘起床,做早課,然後煮早餐,煮好早餐,拿到長江細號上學必經之路,在一個公園的長枱上,我攤開早餐,排好碗筷,我和長江細號坐在公園的長椅上,一起吃自己做的早餐。吃完了,我與他走十五分鐘的路,說些閒話、笑話或者互相責罵,直至到達他的校門。

妄念是不能滿足的
長江細號開始嘴尖,對早餐有意見,有時免為其難地吃。每天要想一個花樣去滿足小朋友不是容易的事。這樣,又會走回買玩具的邏輯,滿足一個無法滿足的妄念。如是,要改變別人,先要改變自己。我不應該去滿足他的妄念,因為妄念是不能滿足的。
我如常地早上四點起床,做早課,煮早餐。在他必經之園的公園長枱上擺好食物。長江細號經過,見到我在公園,走過來搭訕,他頂喜歡與我一起走路回學校的。我想大部分小朋友,在心底裏抗拒權威之前,都希望父母可以陪著他們一起走一段路。我沒有替他預備餐具,也不要請他一起吃早餐。我只是跟他打個招呼,一面吃,一面跟他有一句沒有一句地閒扯。然後,事情自有轉機。長江細號問﹕你在吃什麼呀?我說番薯。也不問他,把一小個放在他手裏。他吃過的番薯還少嗎?小小人仔已經學會虛偽!怎會不知道是番薯?他的問題,其實是說﹕我想吃你的番薯啊。
我想說的是﹕我沒有大膽的企圖,跟長江細號角力,阻止他迷戀玩具。我只是盡量讓他經驗,人生裏其他一樣會令人著迷的東西。
(明報星期日生活)


(注意長江細號小朋友的行止,當然是因為,長江一號的文字,它是橋。既從橋上走過,看見了。單親怎樣相愛?若它是水,在深處,不揚波;若它是舟,輕舟自橫,悠悠淺擱。
長大成人都不容易;但願細號即或難免隨波逐流,也莫溺於水,要識浮。)

Saturday, March 6, 2010

one

hs 結婚了。兩個天南地北的人,時間的手,把他們安置在羅馬尼亞(冇記錯掛),認識,要結婚。
有熱心叔叔姨姨,代主家數人頭,電郵來問;我就答,到時應已返歸,不過呢,唔知應唔應該出現喎……
與新娘阿媽通電話,佢話,你知我唔介意,hs 更唔理架啦,點知今日與xxyyzz 飲下午茶,又搵唔到你(電話滅音,唔記得開番聲),估唔到zz 好認真咁話,梗係唔好啦,呢d 關乎下一代喎——
咁就易辦啦,即使得一把反對聲音,我都服從少數。
新娘阿媽又話,我係費事你揹咁大心理負擔。
仲要揹一世喎。試想下三十年後hs 兩公婆有咩大事小事,容乜易算舊賬,怪到ee 頭上,咁ee 變成不祥人,唉,點知唧。
於是對新娘阿媽話,你轉告hs,我唔出現、唔送禮、咭都唔送。
佢就笑,得喇得喇,佢地美國返黎至同你飲茶啦。
係呀,幾個月前hs去羅馬尼亞(如果冇記錯),遇這美國男子,就決定結婚喇。
開信箱,收hs 請柬,是收過的最impressive 請柬。
新郎姓 Short.
好 cute.
hs 以後會不會也改姓 Short 呢?

Monday, March 1, 2010

幽明

The Press of Night
Russell Edson


At night when the strings are cut; the only string is an electric cord feeding an electric light.
... No, there is no other place.
The electric light presses on the window to keep out the night.

Memory is a string caught in some dark place, beyond even memory; a tangled kite string that will not let the kite rise, even as the metamorphic winds of life will not let it fall.

Thus falls the attention into itself; the lens of the attention withdrawing from the distance; lives in the foreground, having broken from extreme depth.
Chair and table become textures. The eyes grown tactile read the room as Braille. The attention flutters like a moth caught in a room; neither through the window nor into the head of the dreaded self ...

All out there the night ...

















(往後他們會把床撤走,燈移開,除了不動的牆,房間的輪廓改變。
現在我明白了。照片,不是記存。
原來是告別。)