back to Federico García Lorca

“The Song of the Barren Orange Tree” by Federico García Lorca 🇪🇸 (5 Jun 189819 Aug 1936)
Translated from the Spanish
Woodcutter.
Cut my shadow from me.
Free me from the torment
of being without fruit.
Why was I born among mirrors?
Day goes round and round me.
The night copies me
in all its stars.
I want to live without my reflection.
And then let me dream
that ants and thistledown
are my leaves and my parrots.