Oceans
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 the new life?
.
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
from News of the Universe
Sierra Club Books, 1995
translated by Robert Bly