to be an existential question

   

                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 are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?

                                                 Juan Ramon Jimenez

                                                       tr.  Robert Bly

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