Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Day 148

In honor of Maria, my friend from Spain, coming to stay with me for the next month, I post this Lorca poem.

Song of the Barren Orange Tree
by Federico Garcia Lorca



Woodcutter.
Cut my shadow from me.
Free me from the torment
of seeing myself without fruit.


Why was I born among mirrors?
The day walks in circles around me,
and the night copies me
in all its stars.

I want to live without seeing myself.
And I will dream that ants
and thistleburrs are my
leaves and my birds.

Woodcutter.
Cut my shadow from me.
Free me from the torment
of seeing myself without fruit.




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