土 豆康承佳
它肥硕、笨拙，仔细闻
还能嗅到泥土味儿
它应该来自乡下
像祖父一样的老人亲手种植的它
给它浇水、施肥
寂寞的时候，还会陪它说说话
它比一个孩子熟知土地的习性
也就意味着它更懂得
如何在霜打白头后学会成熟
不久后，它便离开了土地
躺在了大卡车里、超市的售货台上
以及我们家厨房的案头
手切土豆，听它的身体脆脆地展开
就这样一刻，那些关于老人、土地
所历经季节里的日头，都纷纷赶来
而后，又像土豆丝一样，脆脆地碎开
Potato
by Kang Chengjia
It is fat, and clumsy. A sniff of it,
you can still smell the earth.
It must have come from the countryside,
planted by an old man similar to my grandfather.
He watered it, fertilized it,
and even talked to it in his lonely hours.
The potato knew the land more than a child does,
with an unspoken ability
to mature finely after hoarfrost;
soon after frost, it left the land
to lie in a big truck, then on a shelf in a supermarket,
then on our kitchen table.
As I slice the potato and hear it crisply unfold,
thoughts about elderly people, about the land,
about the changing seasons all rush to my head,
but soon replaced by the crisp lightness of the potato, now shredded.
康承佳，90后重庆山城姑娘，毕业于武汉大学。曾获第三十六届全国大学生樱花诗歌邀请赛特等奖、青春文学“最佳青春诗歌奖”、2019全球华语大学生短诗大赛“年度诗人”等奖项，曾参加中国星星第十一届大学生诗歌夏令营，作品偶有发表，散见于《诗刊》《扬子江》《草堂》《星星》等。
Translated by Duck Yard Lyricists
Duck Yard Lyricists is a group of devoted poetry lovers: Meifu Wang, Michael Soper, & Guy Hibbert.
本诗由 PATHSHARERS BOOKS（美国同道出版社）
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