This Head Is False - The New York Times

This Head Is False - The New York Times

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My Boat Struck Something Deep - Juan Ramon Jimenez

 

My Boat Stuck Something Deep

March 4, 2013 by Coral Lorax

“My boat struck something deep.
Nothing happened.
Sound, silence, waves.

Nothing happened?

Or perhaps, everything happened

And I’m sitting in the middle of my new life.”

– Juan Ramon Jimenez

Nobel Laureate for Literature in 1956

Left Spain at beginning of Spanish Civil War, 1936.

This poem first heard thanks to Hugh Byrne on 6/13/2021

Perception and awareness

There is no truth. There is only perception. ~ Gustave Flaubert