Luna y panorama de los insectos (Poema del amor)
Mi corazón tendría la forma de un zapato if a siren lived in every village. Pero la noche es interminable when it leans on the sick and there are ships that want to be seen para poder hundirse tranquilos.
Moon and Panorama of the Insects
(Love Poem)
[by Federico García Lorca]
My heart would take the shape of a shoe
if a siren lived in every village.
But the night never ends when it leans on the sick
and there are ships that want to be seen in order to sink in peace.
If the wind blows softly,
my heart takes the shape of a girl.
If the wind won’t leave the cane fields,
my heart takes the shape of a millenary cow pie.
Row! Row, row, row,
toward the army of jagged points,
toward a landscape of pulverized ambushes.
Equal night of the snow, the discontinued systems,
and the moon.
The moon!
But not the moon.
The taverns’ vixen.
The Japanese rooster that ate its own eyes.
The cud.
The lonely women in store windows won’t save us,
nor herbariums where the metaphysician
meets the other slopes of the sky.
Shapes are a lie. What is there?
The circle of mouths of the oxygen.
And the moon.
But not the moon.
The insects,
little dead things lining the shores,
sorrow on longitude,
iodine on stitched flesh,
the crowd on the head of a pin,
the naked man who kneads everyone’s blood,
and my love who is neither horse nor burn,
creature whose breast was consumed.
My love!
Now they sing, scream, moan: A face. Your face! A face.
The apples are one,
the dahlias identical,
the light tastes like worn-out metal
and the countryside of half a decade will fit on the cheek of a coin.
But your face covers the skies of the feast.
Now they sing, scream, moan,
cover everything, climb, terrify!
We’ve got to move—Hurry up!—through the waves, the branches,
the deserted streets of the Middle Ages going down to the river,
the stores of hides where a wounded cow’s horn bellows,
up the ladders—Don’t be scared!—up the ladders.
A discolored man is bathing in the sea;
he’s so tender that searchlights ate him as he gambled away his heart,
and a thousand women live in Peru—Oh, insects!—night and day
they weave nocturnes and parades among their own veins.
One tiny corrosive glove stops me. That’s enough!
I feel the crackle of the first
broken vein on my handkerchief.
Watch out for your hands and feet, my love,
since I must give up my face,
my face, my face, yes, my half-eaten face!
This chaste, burning desire of mine,
this confusion from longing for equilibrium,
this innocent sorrow of gunpowder in my eyes,
will lighten the anguish of another heart
consumed by the nebulae.
The people in shoe stores won’t save us,
nor the landscapes becoming music when they find the rusted keys
Breezes are a lie. Only a small cradle
exists, in the attic,
that remembers everything.
And the moon.
But not the moon.
The insects,
crackling, biting, quivering, swarming,
and the moon
with a smoking glove in the doorway of its wreckage.
The moon!!
—New York, January 4, 1930
Luna y panorama de los insectos (Poema del amor)
(Poema del amor)
[by Federico García Lorca]
Mi corazón tendría la forma de un zapato
si cada aldea tuviera una sirena.
Pero la noche es interminable cuando se apoya en los enfermos
y hay barcos que buscan ser mirados para poder hundirse tranquilos.
Si el aire sopla blandamente
mi corazón tiene la forma de una niña.
Si el aire se niega a salir de los cañaverales
mi corazón tiene la forma de una milenaria boñiga de toro.
¡Bogar! Bogar, bogar, bogar.
hacia el batallón de puntas desiguales,
hacia un paisaje de acechos pulverizados.
Noche igual de la nieve, de los sistemas suspendidos
y la luna.
¡La luna!
Pero no la luna.
La raposa de las tabernas.
El gallo japonés que se comió los ojos.
Las hierbas masticadas.
No nos salvan las solitarias un los vidrios,
ni los herbolarios donde el meta físico
encuentra las otras vertientes del cielo.
Son mentira las formas. Sólo existe
el círculo de bocas del oxígeno.
Y la luna.
Pero no la luna.
Los insectos.
Los muertos diminutos por las riberas.
Dolor en longitud.
Yodo en un punto.
Las muchedumbres en el alfiler.
El desnudo que amasa la sangre de todos,
y mi amor que no es un caballo ni una quemadura.
Criatura de pecho devorado.
¡Mi amor!
ya cantan, gritan, gimen: Rostro. ¡Tu rostro! Rostro.
Las manzanas son unas.
Las dalias son idénticas.
La luz tiene un sabor de metal acabado
y el campo de todo un lustro cabrá en la mejilla de la moneda.
Pero tu rostro cubre los cielos del banquete.
¡Ya cantan!, ¡gritan!, ¡gimen!,
¡cubren!, ¡trepan!, ¡espentan!
Es necesario caminar, ¡de prisa!, por las ondas, por las rama,
por los calles deshabitadas de la Edad Media que bajan al río,
por las tiendas de las pieles donde suena un cuerno de vaca herida,
por las escalas, ¡sin miedto!, por las escalas.
Hay n hombre descolorido que se está bañando en el mar;
es tan tierno que los reflectores le comieron jugando el corazón,
y en el Perú viven mil mujeres, ¡oh insectos!, que noche y día
hacen nocturnos y desfiles entrecruzando sus propias venas.
Un dimunito guante corrosivo me detiene. ¡Basta!
En mi pañuelo, he sentido el tris
de la primera vena que se rompe.
Cuida tus pies, ¡amor mío!, ¡tus manos!,
ya que yo tengo que entregar mi rostro.
¡Mi rostro, mi rostro, ay, mi comida rostro!
Este fuego casto para mi deseo,
esta confusión por anhelo de equilibrio,
este inocente dolor de pólvora en mis ojos,
aliviará la angustia de etro corazón
devorado por las nebulosas.
No nos salva la gente de las zapaterías,
ni los paisajes que se hacen música al encontrar las llavas oxidadas.
Son mentira los aries. Sólo existe
una cunita en el desván
que recuerda todas las cosas.
Y la luna.
Pero no la luna.
Los insectos.
Los insectos solos,
crepitantes, mordientes, estremecidos, agrupados,
y la luna
con un guante de humo sentada en la puerta de sus derribos.
¡¡La luna!!
—Nueva York, 4 de enero de 1930
Art is a Nezspecialized tweak of an image by Nadia Richie.
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you do realize you just spammed my post, right? and actually spread information that makes doubt rise in the minds of those who have never heard your name before now. because…i never wrote anything about your tax scam here. i felt…ashamed for you. and i had no urge to expose your failings in such a fashion.
but now when readers of UMX hear “william gheen” they will think “oh…yeah. thats’ right. that was the guy who scammed his taxes and then went spamming sites so that people wouldn’t forget that william gheen scammed his IRS taxes.”
good luck with your case, though mister william gheen. and if you have any response to mister lorca’s ode to beauty corrosives forehead veins, la luna y los insectos, please lay off the paste function and get all interACTIVE n shit.
doesn’t seem the poetry’s going over too well today.
Be still my heart. One of my favorite poets of all time. (See note roughly in the middle of this picture.)
hey, that’s quite the collection! and the most annotated flickr foto i think i’ve seen.
Gheen needs to make sure ALIPAC.US itself is following the ‘rule of law.’ That doesn’t seem to be the case when it comes to paying taxes!
Just a quick look at ALIPAC.US’s FEC filings shows ALIPAC.US paid no employer taxes and withheld no income taxes from wages for several years.
Finally, after the author of this post turned ALIPAC.US in to the tax man finally now ALIPAC.US is paying taxes and withholding income taxes. The Q2 FEC filing shows that for each month’s salary, employer taxes were paid and income taxes withheld. However, above and beyond taxes on three months of salary is a $5,000 payment for “payroll taxes” to the U.S. Treasury, not ALIPAC.US’s payroll service. I call upon William Gheen to explain the $5,000, as this appears to be a hefty fine for non-payment of previous taxes!
ALIPAC.US continues to insist that immigrants don’t pay taxes, while in fact immigrants pay taxes through payroll deduction like the rest of us (except ALIPAC.US prior to April of 2008).
Yup. And the difference is that the undocumented cannot collect their tax refunds, so ALL that cash goes into our government’s treasury. They suffer, we benefit. In too many instances.
Yes, ALIPAC.US is hypocritical to constantly emphasize the ‘rule of law’ and that immigrants are a burden to taxpayers, claiming immigrants don’t pay taxes (they do) or receive social services (they don’t), while meanwhile ALIPAC.US wasn’t paying or withholding taxes, and the FEC has been getting after ALIPAC.US to provide contributor information required by federal law but ALIPAC.US is defying the FEC (see documentation at http://www.fec.gov).
Apparently, at ALIPAC.US the ‘rule of law’ is only important when it comes to people they hate, and does not apply to them. How hypocritical!
What part of the word “illegal” doesn’t ALIPAC.US understand?
“We are in full compliance with the FEC.”
Well apparently the FEC doesn’t think so. The FEC sent a demand letter requiring ALIPAC.US to provide missing contributor information for more than 50 donors.
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?F28039802932
If ALIPAC.US doesn’t comply with the FEC’s demand by 8/29/08, the FEC is threatening enforcement action, including heavy fines.
More on financial irregularities, non-payment of taxes, etc.:
http://www.alipac.net/bored/index.php?topic=1149.0
When will these people understand that illegal is illegal?
What part of “illegal” don’t they understand?