Biophilia亲生命性

At First, Only the Coordinates Dissolved

The eye settles on a leaf, and stays. Long enough for focus to drift. Long enough for color to shift. Long enough for edges to soften. Long enough for reality to open, almost imperceptibly.

Long enough to become a wound. A constellation. A life-form still waiting for its name. Something lifts, then slips quietly back down.

Like breathing. Like a sudden start. Like waking, if only for a moment.

They grow. They wither. They return. Within the same light. Within the same flicker.

They grow in darkness, then emerge, only briefly, inside the pulse of light.

Wind moves through wind. Shadow falls upon shadow.

Some things are departing. Some things are finding their way back.

“We flee with great speed, fleeing as Nature flees, Going in circles, and yet again in circles.”

— From Walt Whitman’s “We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d.”

起初只是坐标的消融

目光停在一片叶子上，会停很久。 久到失去焦点。 久到颜色缓慢迁徙。 久到边界开始松动。 久到现实出现细小的裂缝。

久到成为伤口。 成为星群。 成为尚未形成名字的生物。 一些东西被抬起，又迅速沉下。

像呼吸。 像受惊。 像短暂的苏醒。

它们生长。腐烂。再次出现。 在同一片光里。在同一次闪烁中。

它们在黑暗中生长。 又在闪烁的光里短暂显现。

风穿过风。 影子覆盖影子。

一些事物正在离开。 一些事物正在返回。

「我们飞速地逃跑，像大自然一样逃跑。 转了一圈又一圈。」

——文中引用的惠特曼诗句出自《我俩，我们被愚弄了这么久》，李野光 / 赵萝蕤 译