Street with a Pink Corner Store

随手从书架上拿一本书读，却是博尔赫斯的诗集，书签正好夹在一首题为《Street with a Pink Corner Store》的一页，想起了两年前我在旧金山的时光。那时，我住在联合广场上的一个旅馆里，每天晚上就沿着高高低低的大街小巷走来走去，晚风里是海洋的气息，各种颜色的维多利亚式的小房子在暮霭里迷糊甜美，街口，有很多这样的小店。我带着这本书在路上，大概当时在读这首诗。
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Street with a Pink Corner Store
Borges

Gone into night are all the eyes from every intersection
and it's like a drought anticipating rain.
Now all roads are near,
even the road of miracles.
The wind brings with it a slow, befuddled dawn.
Dawn is our fear of doing different things and it comes over us.
All the blessed night I have been walking
and its restlessness has left me
on this street, which could be any street.
Here again the certainty of the plains
on the horizon
and the barren terrain that fades into weeds and wire
and the store as bright as last night's new moon.
The corner is familiar like a memory
with those spacious squares and the promise of a courtyard.
How lovely to attest to you. strret of forever, since my own days have witnessed so few things!
Light draws streaks in the air.
My years have run down roads of earth and water
and you are all I feel, strong rosy street.
I think it is your walls that conceived sunrise,
store so bright in the depth of night.
I think, and the confession of my poverty
is given voice before these houses:
I have seen nothing of mountain ranges, rivers, or the sea,
but the light of Buenos Aires made itself my friend
and I shape the lines of my life and my death with that light of the street.
Big long-suffering street.
you are the only music my life has understood.