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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

   
"As birds announce the birth of a new day in song
And my dreams mingle with the first rays of the sun,
Your scent lingers in my sheets,
Prompting me to reach out for you.
But when I do, my arms surround only air.

I brush my fingers lightly across my own face--
A sensual touch which instantly conjures you up.
I maintain this specter of you for quite a while
By remaining in that fanciful land
Between sleep and wakefulness,
Transversing that rare terrain
Where memory and reality interlock.
But then my vision is confiscated from me
When I stumble over the border
Into this more mundane place
Where timelessness
Is banished
By clocks."

--Garcia Lorca
The Morning After
posted by LNR 6:45 AM


 
"Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.

I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.

If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone my master,

never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn."

--Garcia Lorca
Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
posted by LNR 6:45 AM


 
" (Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.)"

--Garcia Lorca
Ditty of First Desire
posted by LNR 6:43 AM


 
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