Oceans

Oceans by Juan Ramon Jimenez

I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.

And nothing
happens! Nothing…Silence… Waves….

–nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and we are standing now, quietly in a new life?

–translated by Robert Bly


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