How you came to know all that you are sure of
　　how you discovered the darkness of green
　　uncurling into the daylight out of
　　its origins unsounded as your own
　　how you learned to fashion shapes of water
　　into softness itself that stayed in place
　　and kept some secret of caves wherever
　　you were but with such welcome seemed to rise
　　that in time you became as some believe
　　a model for the cheek and then the breast
　　the wren felt she knew most of that before
　　there were breasts or cheeks and she made out of
　　living bits of you the globe of her nest
　　as though that was what you had grown there for.
　　
　　你怎么会有把握了解了一切
　　你是如何发现的那片深绿色
　　伸向阳光又不见源头
　　正如你自己深浅莫测
　　你如何学会把不同形状的水
　　塑造得既听话又柔和
　　还保守着每一个你所在的山洞里的秘密
　　像人们看到的那样
　　你被塑成了面颊的形状然后是胸口的形状
　　在出现许多面颊和胸口的形状之前
　　那鹪鹩就已洞悉了一切
　　她用你活生生的肢体造出了她的巢和她的世界
　　仿佛那就是你生于此处的目的
　　
　　译者小感：卑微的生命里总要蕴含几分从容和高傲，这来自于天然的低调情趣和坦然的自我牺牲，正如柔弱的外表下总是深藏着几许坚实和锋芒。然而又能有多少更加柔软的心有幸得以窥此全貌？