Tuesday, December 16, 2008






















Ballad of the Moon

Federico Garcia Lorca



The moon came into the forge
in her bustle of flowering nard.
The little boy stares at her, stares.
The boy is staring hard.
In the shaken air
the moon moves her amrs,
and shows lubricious and pure,
her breasts of hard tin.
"Moon, moon, moon, run!
If the gypsies come,
they will use your heart
to make white necklaces and rings."
"Let me dance, my little one.
When the gypsies come,
they'll find you on the anvil
with your lively eyes closed tight.
"Moon, moon, moon, run!
I can feelheir horses come."
"Let me be, my little one,
don't step on me, all starched and white!"

Closer comes the the horseman,
drumming on the plain.
The boy is in the forge;
his eyes are closed.
Through the olive grove
come the gypsies, dream and bronze,
their heads held high,
their hooded eyes.

Oh, how the night owl calls,
calling, calling from its tree!
The moon is climbing through the sky
with the child by the hand.

They are crying in the forge,
all the gypsies, shouting, crying.
The air is veiwing all, views all.
The air is at the viewing.

2 comments:

Ghost Dansing said...

Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was murdered by members of the fascist group Falange at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. A Spanish judge has opened an investigation of Garcia Lorca's death, among the many others executed and disappeared, as a crime against humanity during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco years.

Fascism is a radical authoritarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-Anarchism, anti-Communism, anti-Capitalism and anti-liberalism.

The original Italian Fascist movement ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. In time, the generic term fascism came to cover a class of related authoritarian political ideologies, parties, and political systems, such as Nazi Germany, Hungary's Arrow Cross Party, Romania's Iron Guard, Belgica's Rexism, Spain's Falange, Portugal's Estado Novo, Croatia's Ustaše, the French political movements led by former socialists Marcel Déat and Jacques Doriot, and others.

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Sherry Pasquarello said...

the world can be a souless place.