Mereka padamkan lampu, dan itu pendar putih globa
seketika, sertamerta, lalu pudar, seperti tablet
dalam gelap gelas. Lalu ada yang bangkit terbit.
Dinding hotel tiba-tiba mengulur ke gelap surga.
Gerak yang meliar perlahan, dan mereka tertidur,
tapi bertemuan jua apa yang amat rahasia di kepala,
seperti dua warna tercampur lalu memarak bersama
di kertas basah, buku gambar bocah sekolah.
Hanya gelap dan senyap. Kota terasa jadi amat dekat,
malam ini. Jendelanya memejam. Rumah pun mendekat.
Mereka berkemas dan menunggu, seperjangkauan,
sepasang bagai yang terbuang, berwajah hilang.
THE COUPLETerjemahan lain:
They turn the light off, and its white globe glows
an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet
in a glass of darkness. Then a rising.
The hotel walls shoot up into heaven’s darkness.
Their movements have grown softer, and they sleep,
but their most secret thoughts begin to meet
like two colors that meet and run together
on the wet paper in a schoolboy’s painting.
It is dark and silent. The city however has come nearer
tonight. With its windows turned off. Houses have come.
They stand packed and waiting very near,
a mob of people with blank faces.
1. Jejalur Rel
2. Nokturno
3. Lansekap Matahari
4. Setelah Kematian Seseorang
