Federico Garcia Lorca

Federico Garcia Lorca – The street of the silent

Giovanni Boldini, The red café, 1887 Behind still glasses  girls play with their laughter. (In empty pianos,   acrobatic spiders.) Girls talk with their boyfriends  waving their tight braids. (World of the fan  of the kerchief and of the hand.) Boys reply by drawing  wings and flowers with black capes. Dietro le immobili vetrate  le ragazze …

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Federico Garcia Lorca – Serenata (Homage to Lope de Vega)

Robert McGinnis, On the run, 1967 By the river banks  the night is wetting itself  and on Lolita’s breasts  the branches die of love. The branches die of love. The naked night sings  over the March bridgeheads. Lolita washes her body  with brine and tuberoses. The branches die of love. The night of aniseed and …

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