Federico Garca-a Lorca White Poems
- 1. Lament For Ignacio Sà¡nchez Mejàas
1. Cogida and death
At five in the afternoon.
It was exactly five in the afternoon.
... - 2. Ode To Salvador Dali
A rose in the high garden you desire.
A wheel in the pure syntax of steel.
The mountain stripped bare of Impressionist fog,
The grays watching over the last balustrades.
... - 3. Ballad Of The Moon
translated by Will Kirkland
The moon came into the forge
in her bustle of flowering nard.
... - 4. Serenata
The night soaks itself
along the shore of the river
and in Lolita's breasts
the branches die of love.
... - 5. The Guitar-la Guitarra
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
The goblets of dawn
are smashed.
... - 6. Adam
A tree of blood soaks the morning
where the newborn woman groans.
Her voice leaves glass in the wound
and on the panes, a diagram of bone.
... - 7. The Gypsy And The Wind
Playing her parchment moon
Precosia comes
along a watery path of laurels and crystal lights.
The starless silence, fleeing
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