Mares

Finisterre


¡Siento que el barco mío
ha tropezado, allá en el fondo,
con algo grande!
¡Y nada
sucede! Nada ... Quietud ... Olas ...

- ¿Nada sucede; o es que ha sucedido todo
y estamos ya, tranquilos, en lo nuevo? -

Juan Ramón Jiménez

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?

Translation by Robert Bly.