煤碳車 1992 (3) 胡民祥譯 一暝拍醒你三擺 佇盛夏，依里拉卡彎那碳車， 往北走鐵路細佫極吵。 你會感覺伊來自遠路： 代先，你的腹肚顫一下， 鋼絲穿過血管，紲落去柴油 起泡仔浮夠皮膚下。 你會看著火車母 闊嘴食枕木， 頭燈射出一堆火金姑。 無法度來阻擋伊。 倒佇遐，定身佇鐵道 等候，氣喘甲那牛， 指頭尾出火那番仔火。 你等候車輦車身陳雷公， 車心起火星，你龍骨發火。 每過一擺道死一屆， 汽笛聲沉落空中作鬼魂， 火車母樹林內消失去。 在即時，你的心臟吵死人， 眠床是一堀暗暝。 Coal Train Jay Parini Three times a night it woke you in middle summer, the Erie Lakawanna, running to the north on thin, loud rail. You could feel it coming a long way off: at first, a tremble in your belly, a wire trilling in your veins, then diesel rising to a froth beneath your skin. You could see the cowcatcher, wide as a mouth and eating ties, the headlight blowing a dust of flies. There was no way to stop it. You lay there, fastened to the tracks and waiting, breathing like a bull, your fingers lit at the tips like matches. You waited for the thunder of wheel and bone, the axles sparking, fire in your spine. Each passing was a kind of death, the whistle dwindling to a ghost in air, the engine losing itself in trees. In a while, your heart was the loudest thing, your bed was a pool of night. Patricia Dobler佇小鐵城(Middletown, Ohio)出世大漢。出版詩集：<>。得著1986年Brittingham詩獎。目前滯佇匹茲堡。 Jay Parini是詩人及小說家，Vermont州的小學院教英文。出版有詩集，包括<<媒鄉>>及<<鎮情>>。 兩位作家攏有勞工無產階級的經驗，用勞工的心境，寫出勞工的艱難及危險。美國勞工的過去嘛是今仔日台灣勞工的一面鏡。 這三首詩唯<< Working classics ---- Poems on Industrial Life>>選出，詩集的編輯是 Peter Oresick 及 Nicholas Coles。 讀者若有興趣，可以看選自共詩集的兩首詩，登佇蕃薯詩刊2 <<若夠故鄉的春天>>，道是 <秋天的罷工站> 及 <阮阿爸的故事，1932>。