Last Thoughts in Viznar
(Federico García Lorca was executed in the white village of Viznar, near Granada, in the freshly dug death trenches, on the l9th August, 1936)
Federico,
does that deadly evening in Viznar,
seem as lucid now,
as it was then?
It was near the Granada of heartbreak and despair and the clinging aromas
of priceless perfumes.
Federico,
what is your sharpest memory of that evening mutating into night,
dense clouds,
frightening,
standing in that gaping hole, well below the olive trees,
no-more than two or three hours old,
done to house motionless, bleeding bodies?
As I walk across the grassy indentations of Viznar,
I'm almost sure I can hear your distant voice:
Después de mi muerte
dejad el día nacer,
y, así?,
puedo observar los campos,
floreteados con los colores de la naturaleza.
Federico, your poetic universality echoes these words in many languages:
let the day be born …
and thus,
I can look upon the fields …
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