纪弦先生的告别式已于昨天下午在旧金山举行。路途太远无法前往参加，只好请诗友
荒田为我合送一个花圈聊表悼念与敬意。



 下面重贴几年前写的一首诗，为纪老送行，愿他安息。


 眼睛


         恋人之目：
         黑而且美。

         十一月，
         狮子座的流星雨。

              --纪弦『恋人之目』



 他在空白的稿纸上
 写下了一个大大的标题：
 眼睛

 她的眼睛
 那双使他想起
 聊斋志异里
 迷倒过多少个白面书生的
 眼睛

 几个世纪过去了
 那双迷人的
 想对他说什么的眼睛
 便这样在稿纸上同他痴痴对视
 狐狸糊涂

 今天早上他就着晨光
 在床上翻读《纪弦精品》
 猛然省悟
 原来所有黑而且美
 属于恋人们的眼睛
 都像沙滩上的贝壳
 老早被这位住在海边
 每天起个大早的爱美的诗人
 捡去分门别类统计归纳
 然后用寥寥的十八个大字
 加上几个标点
 向专利局提出登记
 注册商标去了


 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
 Ji Xian must have obtained a patent on the writing of eyes
 with a poem of nine words
 and some punctuation marks

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