knife-thrust in the gut of poetry

"A man and a woman are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one."
-Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
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Resurrection by Roberto Bolaño

Poetry slips into dreams
like a diver in a lake.
Poetry, braver than anyone,
slips in and sinks
like lead
through a lake infinite as Loch Ness
or tragic and turbid as Lake Balaton.
Consider it from below:
a diver
innocent
covered in feathers
of will.
Poetry slips into dreams
like a diver who’s dead
in the eyes of God.