《朱槿與梅花――馬來西亞台灣雙語詩集》

《朱槿與梅花――馬來西亞台灣雙語詩集》封面

感謝主編馬拉凱（Malachi Edwin Vethamani）、羅得彰（Lo Te-chang Mike）將我的〈拋棄〉、〈汙點〉漢英兩首作品收入2025年馬來西亞出版的《朱槿與梅花――馬來西亞台灣雙語詩集》。以下分享期中一首〈拋棄〉的作品。

拋棄 /楊淇竹

拖網漁場網羅

所有所有魚種

海域中

尚未成年幼魚

捕撈上岸後

再丟回大海

拋棄

生命已脆弱無法求生

占全年漁獲總數三分之一

那是1977年舊聞

日後才積極研發新型漁網

喪生魚種比例下降

我們卻一直幻想

餐桌上

鯖魚、柳葉魚、竹筴魚、鯷魚

是漁人只捕獲的獵物

我們卻一直無知

不屬於餐桌的魚種

葬生

自己的原鄉

大海瞬間成為掩埋場

有時丟棄很方便

不會汙染

大魚可吃死小魚

海鳥可吃死小魚

海龜可吃死小魚

看來貼合常理

不過死亡是族群

滅亡之始

大量同種魚群

在同一海域

在同一魚網

被過濾拋回大海

魚屍腐爛的氣味

也會在

同一海域

同一洋流

載浮載沉

無聲抗議

海最後留下悲傷的

詛咒

每一種魚世代即將

滅絕之際

腐爛的血水

鮮紅驚人

Disposed /YANG Chi-chu

Trawl fishing ground nets

Every and all species

In the sea

Fingerlings that are not yet adults

Caught and taken ashore

Then thrown back into the sea

Disposed

Live that are too fragile to survive

One-third of the annual catch

This was old news from 1977

Only later was there development of new types of nets

The percentage of fish species lost decreased

And yet we keep fantasizing

On the dinner table

Mackerel, swordfish, mackerel, anchovies

Are the only preys that fishermen catch

But we have been ignorant

Fish that don't belong on the table

dies

In their homeland

The sea becomes a landfill in an instant

Sometimes it is easy to throw them away

No pollution

Big fish can eat dead fingerlings

Seabirds can eat dead fingerlings

Turtles can eat dead fingerlings

Seems perfectly logical

But death is the beginning of the end

For the population

Large schools of the same species

In the same oceanic region

In the same net

Screened and thrown back into the sea

The smell of rotting fish carcasses

Is also in the

The same oceanic region

The same ocean currents

Half-floating half-sinking

Silently protesting

The sea finally leaves behind a sad

Curse

Every fish generation at the moment

They are about to become extinct

The rotting bloody water

Bright red and shocking