2024-10-10 National Cake Decorating Day

【The Auroras of Autumn·VI (1948)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

It is a theatre floating through the clouds,

Itself a cloud, although of misted rock

And mountains running like water, wave on wave,

Through waves of light. It is of cloud transformed

To cloud transformed again, idly, the way

A season changes color to no end,

Except the lavishing of itself in change,

As light changes yellow into gold and gold

To its opal elements and fire's delight,

Splashed wide-wise because it likes magnificence

And the solemn pleasures of magnificent space

The cloud drifts idly through half-thought-of forms.

The theatre is filled with flying birds,

Wild wedges, as of a volcano's smoke, palm-eyed

And vanishing, a web in a corridor

Or massive portico. A capitol,

It may be, is emerging or has just

Collapsed. The denouement has to be postponed…

This is nothing until in a single man contained,

Nothing until this named thing nameless is

And is destroyed. He opens the door of his house

On flames. The scholar of one candle sees

An Arctic effulgence flaring on the frame

Of everything he is. And he feels afraid.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 

【《秋天的極光·之六》(1948年)】

華萊士·史蒂文斯“異鄉人·花環”(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            宇宙劇場漂浮在雲端，

            雖為白雲，卻貌似霧狀的岩石

            山環水流，一波又一波，

            透過光線。白雲飄動離去

            再幻化歸來，悠然自得，恰如

            無盡轉換的絢爛時節，

            除了變化的奢華，

            流光將黃色變為金色而金色

            承載乳白的元素和火焰的喜悅，

            到處傳揚不僅因為熱愛流光溢彩

            並且真切享受蒼穹浩瀚

            白雲悠然自得飄過掩影的奇幻。

            宇宙劇場滿是飛鳥，

            天然的楔狀，火山的煙霧，辟邪的眼睛

            突然消失，蜘蛛網在過道里

            乃至剛勁的柱廊上。擎天神廟，

            也許就是、正在浮現或剛剛

            崩潰。不得不推遲收場……

            除非單身漢出現，

            除非稱呼無名物

            徹底廢棄。他打開家門

            火焰噴射。秉燭夜戰的學者望見

            璀璨的極光閃耀在

            他的世界。令其心生恐懼。

【注】從未想到，中秋十月，北極光竟會出現在北緯40°的大費城“兄弟之愛”地區。地磁風暴如此瘋狂，以致紫色和綠色的光芒划過夜空，像一場無聲的天幕之舞——讓我不出家門，便可欣賞到這場五彩繽紛的夜光秀。當然，如若不借用裝有紅外濾光片的智能手機或相機，肉眼無法捕捉到今明兩晚的大自然奇觀。

不知道地處相同緯度的北京，是否也出現了同一景觀？

恰巧，就在我仰望這片極光的同一時刻——2025年10月11日凌晨，受同一場地磁暴影響，北京地區多處也再次見到了極光。在京冀交界的金山嶺長城河北段，古老的城牆在星空與極光的映襯下蔚為壯觀；從北京靈山風景區遠眺，懷來方向的城市燈火與極光交相輝映。原來，這場來自太陽的饋贈，不僅灑在了我的後院，也照亮了萬里之外的長城。

北緯40°，本不是極光常駐的領地。但地磁風暴的瘋狂，讓這場邂逅成為可能。我們，都是被宇宙選中的觀眾。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

小學一年級·周末(2009 Weekend)

Aurora Borealis w/ Purple & Green Hues Streaking across the Sky Seen Clearly by iPhone Cameras But Not Our Naked Eyes

(用蘋果手機可以拍到划過天空的紫綠色調北極光，但肉眼卻看不清左圖白圈裡的紫光)

Aurora Borealis w/ Solar Storm Hitting Earth, Producing Colorful Light across Northern Hemisphere @ Night

(太陽風暴襲擊地球導致北極光·北半球夜空出現絢麗光芒)

Crosslink(相關博文):

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