老猿：拙詩第7次獲美文學獎提名

近年，我写了10余首题为“Y"的英文诗，且大多已被发表。今天上午因我的电脑在住院便在小兒子的电脑上浏览，得知第二首”Y"已获【湿雪杂志】向美国‘小推车’文学奖提名。因为这已是我第7次获得提名，对获奖之事早已失去了兴奋，剩下的只有淡然。对我而言，写诗乃是我个人的宗教！

不妨转贴如下，以博一笑，也为存档：： 
链接：：http://www.sleetmagazine.com/selected/yuan_v5n1.html#Title1
原诗：：y

    yes, yes, with your 
yellowish skin, you enjoy 
  meditating within the shape of 
a wishbone, inside the broken wing 
    of an oriental bird strayed, or 
in a larger sense, you look like 
  the surfacing tail of a pacific whale
    who yells low, but whose voice reaches afar
far beyond a whole continent, to a remote village 
  near the yellow river, where you used to sunbathe 
    rice stems, reed leaves, cotton skeletons 
with a fork made of a single horn-shaped twig
    when you were a barefooted country boy
        on the other side of this new world