29 January 2015

De Profundis

'FedericoGarciaLorcaDeProfundisLeidenWallPoem' by David Eppstein - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FedericoGarciaLorcaDeProfundisLeidenWallPoem.jpg#mediaviewer/File:FedericoGarciaLorcaDeProfundisLeidenWallPoem.jpg

Those hundred lovers
are asleep forever
beneath the dry earth.
Andalusia has
long, red-colored roads.
Córdoba, green olive trees
for placing a hundred crosses
to remember them.

Translation by Tom Clark

17 January 2015

reality

Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann, Flickr creative commons. Manuscipt, James Douglas Morrison