ground notes from Yes Mountain

(Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea)

& bending force through

the mountain’s overrunning

summer kudzu, upraised

as a thought

I found a pine, barely

fledging under vine

strangulations, & later asked my wife

if meditation, that refuge

from self, poses

questions we cannot know

without the process, cannot

know answers within

the process, &

she tells me the trick

is to not-think, just

arrive & I’m wondering how

& if I can

ever leave this mountain, the owls

like night’s doorbells, squirrels

picking dawn locks

& the pine trees, like

minds, moving unsimply

into the world’s entanglements

***

today’s circuit, sun

unrelenting as swarms, the

bugging hordes with me

by the tomb in an old script

I cannot read, at this hill’s apex

a bright & humming cloud

of hot trees’ scent

& I’ll tell myself whatever this is, hold

it, hold it within, this sentence

another circuit I’ll walk

under each morning’s freezing shower,

hold, hold, whatever

is or might be, these things

that you’ll becoming, & then be

Dan Disney’s latest books include New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry(co-edited with Matthew Hall;Palgrave) and accelerations & inertias (Vagabond Press), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award and received the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His individual poems have won numerous prizes, including, most recently, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. For the last 15 years Disney has taught in the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul.

《大地笔记》（澳洲，丹·迪斯尼）

当弯曲的力量穿过

山上蔓延的夏季葛藤，

升起，如同一个想法

我发现一棵松树，在藤蔓的

绞杀下，勉强抽芽。

后来我问妻子，冥想

这个逃离自我的避难所

是否会提出一些若不经历这个过程

我们便无法知晓的问题

是否在过程中也无法找到答案

她告诉我诀窍在于“不去思考”，

只是抵达。而我在想如何

以及是否能够

离开这座山，猫头鹰

如同黑夜的门铃，松鼠

拨动黎明的锁

而松树则像思想一样，

并不简单地

卷入这个世界的纠葛

今日的环行，阳光

如蜂群一般无情，

一群群恼人的家伙随着我

盘桓在坟墓旁，墓碑上有我读不懂的

古老文字，在这座峰顶

一团明亮而嗡鸣的云

饱含热烈的树木的香气

我告诉自己，无论这是什么，把握住，

把握住，把它留存在心里，这个句子

是我将在每个清晨的冷雨中

行走的另一段环程。

把握住，把握住，无论这是什么

或可能是什么，这些

都是你将成为、也终将成为的事物

丹·迪斯尼（Dan Disney）的最新著作包括《当代澳大利亚诗歌新方向》《加速与惯性》，后者入围朱迪思·赖特·卡兰斯奖，并获得肯尼斯·斯莱瑟诗歌奖。他的诗歌曾获多项大奖，最近的有彼得·波特诗歌奖。过去15年里，迪斯尼一直在首尔西江大学的英语文学项目任教。