Federico Garca-a Lorca Light Poems
- 1. Arbolé, Arbolé
Tree, tree
dry and green.
The girl with the pretty face
... - 2. Lament For Ignacio Sà¡nchez Mejàas
1. Cogida and death
At five in the afternoon.
It was exactly five in the afternoon.
... - 3. 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.
... - 4. Landscape Of A Vomiting Multitude
The fat lady came out first,
tearing out roots and moistening drumskins.
The fat lady
who turns dying octopuses inside out.
... - 5. The Faithless Wife
So I took her to the river
believing she was a maiden,
but she already had a husband.
It was on St. James night
... - 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. Dawn
Dawn in New York has
four columns of mire
and a hurricane of black pigeons
splashing in the putrid waters.
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