Last night I dreamt that you and I 昨晚 我梦见 你和我
were slow dancing in a wet field in 慢慢跳舞 在南达科他
South Dakota, and that your hair 一片潮湿的田里，你的头发
smelled like wheat and is somehow 带着麦子的气味 而且
still long and yellow enough for me 还是那么长 那么黄 我在

to breathe in a dream. When I woke  梦里也能闻到。 我醒了

up I wanted to call South Dakota,  想打个电话 到南达科他

tell the operator that when I was 告诉接线员 我

14 years old I thought you looked  14岁的时候 觉得你

Just like Apollo, describe how you 就像阿波罗，告诉她 你

look walking out of seven-foot high 走出 那片七英尺高的

Sunflowers with 13 inch heads so heavy 向日葵地时的样子13英寸的花头 那么沉

It is all they can do to follow the sun它们白日里只能追着太阳走。

in a day. Tell her how the dog crept 告诉她 那条狗

off to the chicken farm to play tag, 怎么爬进鸡舍胡闹，

how the outhouse blew away in a winter 冬天 茅厕给风暴

storm and when we went to get another  吹跑了 我们去再弄一个

the old man came to the door and called  那老头儿走到门口叫我

me your boy. How you ran your fingers你的男孩儿。 你把手指

through my short hair and across my  穿过我的短发 掠过我

round, willful forehead, and said 圆圆的、任性的前额，说

yes, my beautiful boy. 是呀，我漂亮的男孩儿。

All day long I kept thinking about  一整天 我都在想

that 20 miles drive into Aberdeen for a glass of 到阿伯丁去喝

whiskey. It was 14 years now since I  一杯威士忌的 那20英里路。 14年了

sat next to you on the tractor waiting 自从那次在拖拉机上 我坐在你旁边 等着

for dark. Last night when we slow-danced 天黑。 昨晚 在我的梦里

in my dream it was all just the same. 我们 慢慢跳舞 还是和原来一样。

Why didn’t I marry you? 我为什么没嫁给你？

Why did I take that hostess job in Minneapolis?  我为什么要去明尼阿波利斯当女招待？

We drove out of town and the collected reflections 我们开车出镇 重重叠叠的城市的影子

of cities hit the northern ice caps and a shimmering 映在北方的冰面上 一道闪烁的

curtain of light illuminated the sky over the光幕 照亮了冬天草原上的

winter prairie. Another winter passed and you met 天空。 又一个冬天过去了你 在城里的酒吧

another mean girl in some downtown bar.又遇到 一个坏女孩儿。

I started going out with the motorcyclist and 我开始和一个摩托车手约会 后来

then a musician and at your wedding your grandma又和一个搞音乐的 在你的婚礼上 你奶奶

shouted IT WONT LAST and winked at me.大声嚷嚷 长不了！ 还向我眨眼　

At the reception the weeping bride drove me宴会上　新娘哭着

out the back door with her champagne glass 拿着她的香槟酒杯 把我从后门轰走

and after that I never saw you again.自那以后 我再没见过你。