眼睛

戀人之目﹕

黑而且美。

十一月，

獅子座的流星雨。

                  ──紀弦『戀人之目』

他在空白的稿紙上

寫下了一個大大的標題﹕

眼睛

她的眼睛

那雙使他想起

聊齋誌異裡

迷倒過多少個白面書生的

眼睛

幾個世紀過去了

那雙迷人的

想對他說什麼的眼睛

便這樣在稿紙上同他癡癡對視

狐狸糊塗

今天早上他就著晨光

在床上翻讀《紀弦精品》

猛然省悟

原來所有黑而且美

屬於戀人們的眼睛

都像沙灘上的貝殼

老早被這位住在海邊

每天起個大早的愛美的詩人

撿去分門別類統計歸納

然後用寥寥的十八個大字

加上幾個標點

向專利局提出登記

註冊商標去了

錄自《蚱蜢世界》：非馬新詩自選集 第三卷(1990-1999)

釀出版(秀威資訊), 台北, 2012年7月

http://www.bodbooks.com.tw/viewitem.aspx?prodno=3864

EYES

Lovers’ eyes:

black and beautiful.

November,

Leo’s meteor shower.

                          ---Lovers’ Eyes  by Ji Xian

last night he wrote on a blank sheet of paper a big big title:

EYES

her eyes

reminded him of those charming eyes

that infatuated so many fair-complexioned young scholars

in ancient bizarre ghost stories

several centuries had since passed

and those enchanting eyes

that should have something to say to him

now just stared at him in a stupor

on the blank sheet

this morning as he was reading

the Collected Best Poems by Ji Xian

it suddenly dawned on him

that those lovers’ eyes

black and beautiful

must have all been gathered

like shells on the beach

by the beauty-loving early-rising poet who lives near the ocean

after passionate and extensive studies

he obtained a patent on the writing of eyes

with a poem of nine words

and some punctuation marks