ELEVENTH. IV.22 Poem by Roberto Juarroz

You have to dig up the sources.

You have to dig up the sources
and find what is underneath.
You have to dig up each step
and afterwards the trace of each step.
You have to dig up each word
and the absence that each word brings.
You have to dig up each dream
as if it were an oblique continent.
You have to dig up the world
until it's a single excavation.

You have to discover the sources
that were filled in long ago,
perhaps from the beginning.

You have to initiate a new archeology;
the archeology of sources,
total archeology.