| OBSESI HITAM PUTIH | AN OBSESSION IN BLACK AND WHITE |
| Dorothea Rosa Herliany | trans. Harry Aveling ...............(from Bahasa Indonesian) |
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aku terperangkap lagu hujan di antara ilalang: bulan yang itu juga mendaki dukaku yang purnama. lerenglereng dan tebing hatitua melukiskan ketakutan. kabut melingkar dalam gelombang jerit serangga di hutan jauh. setetes langit hitam menghiburku di antara daun-daun terbang. angsa dan sekawanan bangau mencari keteduhan yang menggenang duka-renta dalam sepercik cahaya merah. matahari mengabut dalam genangan bulan menggantung di kekosongan kalbu. di manakah bertemu antara segala yang terpisahkan? tak ada yang bisa kubaca dari pikiran tua yang mencari segala yang tibatiba hilang. selain ketakutan. lalu bisikan dari entah siapa-apa, "Kekasih, malam itu getar lolong hewan-hewan liar!" |
i am trapped by the rain singing among the tall grass: so is the moon as it rises over my shining sorrow. the hills and rivers of the heart depict his fear. the mist encircles him through the waves of screaming insects in the distant forest. a drop of black sky comforts me among the flying leaves. geese and a pair of cranes search for the tranquillity which floods shabby grief in a spark of red light. the sun turns to mist in the damp moon hanging over the heart's emptiness. how can we ever reunite everything which has been torn apart? i can read nothing in the old thoughts which search for all that has vanished. except the fear arising from someone somewhere, "My beloved, the night trembles with the screams of strange wild beasts!" |
Copyright © Dorothea Roas Herliany 2007; trans. copyright © Harry Aveling 2007
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