詩詞翻譯：冰川13景

一位朋友希望我能寫一首中文詩，再幫她翻譯成英文，題材是環境保護。我哪裡會寫詩呢！但我可以找一首英文的詩詞翻譯成中文。我從一個詩人網站選了Craig Santos Perez寫的Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier。他是關島的原住民，成為夏威夷大學文學系的教授，這首詩描寫的是正在融化的冰川。

I Among starving polar bears, the only moving thing was the edge of a glacier.
II We are of one ecology like a planet in which there are 200,000 glaciers.
III The glacier absorbed greenhouse gases. We are a large part of the biosphere.
IV Humans and animals are kin. Humans and animals and glaciers are kin.
V We do not know which to fear more, the terror of change or the terror of uncertainty? The glacier calving or just after?
VI Icebergs fill the vast Ocean with titanic wrecks. The mass of the glacier disappears, to and fro. The threat hidden in the crevasse an unavoidable cause.
VII O vulnerable humans, why do you engineer sea walls? Do you not see how the glacier already floods the streets of the cities around you? VIII I know king tides, and lurid, inescapable storms; But I know, too, that the glacier is involved in what I know.
IX When the glacial terminus broke, it marked the beginning of one of many waves.
X At the rumble of a glacier losing its equilibrium, every tourist in the new Arctic chased ice quickly.
XI They explored the poles for offshore drilling. Once, we blocked them, in that we understood the risk of an oil spill for a glacier.
XII The sea is rising. The glacier must be retreating.
XIII It was summer all winter. It was melting and it was going to melt. The glacier fits in our warm-hands.

下面是我的翻譯：

1. 在飢腸碌碌的北極熊當中，四周唯一移動的東西，好像就是冰川的邊緣—它越來越近了。
2. 我們屬於同一生態體系，好像一個星球，含有20萬個冰川。
3. 冰川吸收溫室氣體，我們是龐大生物圈的一個重要部份。
4. 人和動物是親戚。人和動物和冰川是親戚。
5. 我們不曉得哪一樣更恐怖：恐怖的改變，或是前程未卜？冰川吱嘎斷裂之聲，或是斷裂之後？
6. 冰山充滿大洋，其中有大小船隻殘骸。冰川的份量增增減減，逐漸消失。危險隱藏在冰縫裡，無法躲避。
7. 脆弱的人類啊，為甚麼建造海堤？君不見冰川融化的大水已沖進你附近城市的街道？
8. 我知道越發可怖的漲大潮，叫你見識一下海面升高一、兩尺的威風，還有你無法逃脫的海洋風暴登陸，帶來空前的洪水，但我也知這些全都關乎冰川。
9. 當冰川一角終於斷裂時，它所引起的海嘯不過是眾多波浪的開端。
10. 當冰川轟隆失去平衡，來到溫暖新北極的每位遊客都迅速追冰。
11. 他們開發南極北極，鑽探海底石油。我們曾經阻擋他們，因我們明白海底漏油對冰川的威脅。
12. 海水正在上漲，冰川必需退後。
13. 整個冬天都好像夏天，冰川正在融化，它會融化的。在我們溫暖的手中，冰川沒那麼寒冷！