Niah Poetry：來自越南的酒醉了尼亞的夢

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Niah Poetry: Niah’s Dreams, Drunk on Vietnamese Beer

李哲林 Evan Lee｜短詩四首 · Four Short Poems

Hand holding an acoustic guitar over a colorful floral table with two Camel beer cans and small tools, casual outdoor scene — *Back in Niah, with my guitar and a couple of Camel beers.*

序 · Preface

回到尼亞，晚上便練練歌，喝喝酒。有感寫下一些小詩。

有些記憶來自遙遠的異鄉，有些留在曾經熟悉的土地。喝著喝著，往事就這樣浮現。

於是，把這幾首短詩收在一起。

Back in Niah, I spent my evenings practising songs and having a few drinks. Along the way, I wrote a few short poems — Niah Poetry.

Some memories come from distant places; others linger in once-familiar land. As I drank, the past began to surface.

I’ve gathered these short poems here.

Brick historic facade with an arched wooden door, circular window, tall windows, and blooming flowers beside the entrance. — *Flowers beside an old wooden doorway in Mechelen.*

一、梅赫倫的白酒迴響

白酒羞澀了暖陽

蕩漾在梅赫倫石磚上

繁花在風中搖曳如鈴

應和遠處的鐘聲

這夏季的麥香

夾雜難耐的熱情

一時癱瘓了往常

而時差夾雜思念

在唾手可得的醉意中

尋找...尋找

你肩上的氣息

——李哲林《梅赫倫的白酒迴響》

The Echoes of White Wine from Mechelen

White wine makes the warm light blush rippling over Mechelen’s paving stones flowers sway like bells in the wind answering the distant chimes

This summer’s scent of grain mingled with a passion hard to bear briefly paralyses the everyday

And the time difference mingles with longing in a drunkenness within easy reach searching… searching for the scent of your shoulder

Lush green rainforest canopy seen from a high overlook, with trees framing a wide horizon under a bright cloudy sky. — *Niah landscape view from the top of Bukit Kasut, Batu Niah, back in 2015.*

二、那個還有在賣的有機煙草

乾葉煙草有機尼古丁

農務間隔著檳榔或米酒

現殺的 keli 路上採的 paku

在午後歇息的餐盤上

轉化成嘻笑的養分

轉化成多年後...

在咖啡店閒聊油棕價起伏的回憶

——李哲林《那個還有在賣的有機煙草》

That Organic Tobacco They Still Sell

dried leaves, tobacco, organic nicotine

between the farm chores, betel nut or rice wine

freshly killed keli, paku picked along the road

on plates at the afternoon rest

turn into the nourishment of laughter

turn into, years later…

memories of coffee-shop chatter about the rise and fall of oil palm prices

Brown muddy water with rippling reflections of trees, creating a calm, abstract surface pattern. — *An old tree’s reflection, softened by the river’s ripples.*

三、她再次出現在這裡

她曾為河流

披上花衣

她曾為童真

迎風遮蔭

她曾承載著

鄉民口耳間的傳奇

她曾在小李的詩詞裡

留下倒影

記憶裡

夜空一片紅火

直到旭日探頭時

她已是空中漸散的魂魄

——李哲林《她再次出現在這裡》

She Appears Here Again

She once clothed the river

in flowers

she once sheltered innocence

standing in the wind

She once carried

legends on the villagers’ lips

she once left a reflection

in Xiao Li’s verses

In memory

the night sky blazes red

by the time the rising sun peeks out

she is already a soul fading into the air

Split-screen of highways by lush limestone mountains, with a motorbike, cars, palm trees, and a calm tropical sky. — *Between Ipoh and Batu Niah, mountains, meetings and different ways of saying goodbye.*

四、山城和Subis山之間的唏噓

翻過了山還是山

你我相遇千杯或嫌少

翻過了山還是山

誰再相遇千語不相干

翻過了山

你好，再見。

翻過了山

你還好嗎？下次...再見...

——李哲林《山城和Subis山之間的唏噓》

Sighs Between the Mountain Town and Mount Subis

Beyond the mountain, still more mountains

you and I meet

a thousand cups may not be enough

Beyond the mountain, still more mountains

who meets whom again

a thousand words, none connecting

Beyond the mountain

hello, goodbye.