编者按 美国普利策奖诗人Sharon Olds常以母女关系为题材创作自传性诗歌。这首《诊断》选自其诗集 One Secret Thing (2008)，讲述她六个月大时，因她神情异于其他孩子而被她妈妈送去诊所看病，却被医生笑着打发——这分明是你家孩子表现出来的幽默感。恰好和周一推送的例子（Alice的姨妈对其幽默感的激赏）相反，这首诗暗示的是成人对儿童的不解和误解，也挑战了家长的权威。请点击视频聆听诗人自己的朗读，全诗文本见后。
Diagnosis
By the time I was six months old, she knew something
was wrong with me. I got looks on my face
she had not seen on any child
in the family, or the extended family,
or the neighborhood. My mother took me in
to the pediatrician with the kind hands,
a doctor with a name like a suit size for a wheel:
Hub Long. My mom did not tell him
what she thought in truth, that I was Possessed.
It was just these strange looks on my face—
he held me, and conversed with me,
chatting as one does with a baby, and my mother
said, She’s doing it now! Look!
She’s doing it now! and the doctor said,
What your daughter has
is called a sense
of humor. Ohhh, she said, and took me
back to the house where that sense would be tested
and found to be incurable.
Source of video: PBS
P. S., 之前还推送过另一首Sharon Olds的诗歌，请点击阅读 → Poem for Cynthia Nixon
如果你是Go Global的新朋友，请长按指纹识别二维码
-------------------------------------
© Go Global