I think it is easier to talk about the end of a poem than it is to talk about its beginning.

且谈论一首诗的结束比谈论它的开始要容易许多。

Because the poem ends on the page, but it begins off the page, it begins in the mind.
The mind acts, the mind wills a poem, often against our own will;

因为当诗在页面上结束，便使它在页面之外开始，令它始于心灵。
心灵的行为，心灵对一首诗的意愿，往往是违背我们自己的思想的；

somehow this happens,
somehow a poem gets written in the middle of a chaotic holiday party
that has just run out of ice,
and it's your house.

不知怎的，发生了这种情况，
不知怎的，一首诗在一个混乱的节日聚会中被写了下来，
在一个刚刚用光了冰块的聚会，而且正好在你的家里。