许其正：蝉壳(中英对照)

一枚蝉壳

趴伏在一棵龙眼的

树干上

我发现了它

在那个炎炎夏午

和我童年时常发现的情形一样

如今我已中年

回首，只见

童年如那蝉壳……

如果炎炎夏午过去了呢？

如果中年过去了呢？

它是否会仍然完好不变？

The Cicada Shell / Hsu ChiCheng

There was a

Cicada shell lay down

The trunk of a longan

I find it

In a hot summer noon

Just as I found in my childhood

And now I am in the middle age

Turn back to look, I find

My childhood looks like the cicada shell

May it be undamaged

If the hot summer noon is passed？

If the middle age is passed？

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