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1910

(Interlude)

 

My eyes in 1910

never saw the dead being buried,

or the ashen festival of a man weeping at dawn,

or the heart that trembles cornered like a sea horse.

 

My eyes in 1910

saw the white wall where girls urinated,

the bull's muzzle, the poisonous mushroom,

and a meaningless moon in the corners

that lit up pieces of dry lemon under the hard black of bottles.

 

My eyes on the pony's neck,

in the pierced breast of a sleeping Saint Rose,

on the rooftops of love, with whipers and cool hands,

in a garden where the cats ate frogs.

 

Attic where old dust gathers statues and moss,

boxes keeping the silence of devoured *****

in a place where sleep stumbled onto its reality.

There my small eyes.

 

Don't ask me anything. I've seen that things

find their void when they search for direction.

There is a sorrow of holes in the unpeopled air

and in my eyes clothed creatures - undenuded!

Written by
Federico García Lorca
1898-1936 / Spanish
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New York, 1929

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