Resurrection, by Roberto Bolaño

Resurrection

Poetry enters a dream

Like a diver into a lake.

Poetry, braver than anyone else,

Enters and falls

Heavily

Into a lake, infinite like Loch Ness,

Or murky and ill-fated, like Lake Balaton.

Gaze at it from the bottom:

A diver

Innocent

Wrapped in the feathers

Of will.

Poetry enters a dream

Like a dead diver

In God’s eye.

Translated from the Spanish by Jorge Salavert, 2013.