BAIHAI
白海

2016
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Poetry, scale variable
詩，無特定尺寸

the port
me
the other side of the sea

the ship is there
the ship is here

the other side of the sea
me
​the port

港口
我
海的另一端

船在彼岸
船在此岸

海的另一端
我
港口

between the overcast and the dark water
the wave can't reach and the rain can't hit
what is floating there even the gull evade
rejecting two ways of suffocation

a dot of white

​is it me or not

在陰天與黑海之間的
浪打不到雨淋不到的
是什麼在那飄啊飄的連海鷗都無蹤的
兩種窒息都拒絕的

​一點白

是不是我

no one told me the departure
so I imagine a great trip

the deck isn't leaning
my rudder is

one round
and again

I throw up

沒人告訴我啟航
所以我假想一趟風平浪靜

傾斜的不是甲板
是我的舵

一圈
再一圈

​吐了

a ship with no passenger
the all jumped into the sea

can't remember how many days go by
can''t remember the ports I have stopped

abandon the anchor

the drowning man, the stranded fish
the corpses stay

I can't stop, either

一艘沒有乘客的船
他們早已跳下了海

不記得是第幾天
不記得停靠的港

把錨丟了

​溺死的人、​擱淺的魚
沒人收屍

我也停不下來​​

the boatswain calls
but I am not hungry

the battleship in the bottom of the sea
​the boatswain calls

口笛聲響起
而我並不餓

沈在海底的軍艦
​口笛聲響起

when the thunder hits the sea
will the fish below feel the pain?

if not
when the storm comes
I will jump down from the deck

當閃電砸向海面的時候
底下的魚會不會痛？

​如果不會
當雷雨來臨時
我會從甲板躍下

we all know
the ship sank because of an iceberg

but no one knows
the ship that causes a iceberg sink

​in a dock
sinking or floating
are both ambiguous

 無人不知
那艘因冰山而沉的船
 
但無人知
這艘冰山將因其而沉的船
 
在船塢中
沉與浮
都摸不著邊

if the sea, the rain, the ice, the cloud, the air are all the same
my notion of sailing will be as soft as the mountain stream

​but the ship is as hard as the steel
it can only smashes the wave above
​till the last nail broke

假如海與雨與冰與雲與氣都是一樣的
我掌舵的心便如同澗流般輕柔

但船腹如鋼
只能狂衝前方的浪
直到最後一根鉚釘崩解

no one told me the arrival​
but I have never got on board

沒有人告訴我啟航
​而我也根本沒搭上船

灰色旅人 個展，台灣高雄On The Road影像空間，2018
Sail In The Gray solo exhibition at On The Road Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2018