DAY 651 | La piedra es una frente donde los sueños gimen


Someone, at some stage, will have to pick up the tab for inflicting so much senseless pain, and we all know who this someone is. — MNC

СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ !


Parents lose children, children lose parents. 

In the top photographs there are fathers near portraits of their sons, fallen heroes. The two bottom ones, children near the dead heroes - one photo of a child near the portrait of his deceased brother, the second - near the photograph of his deceased father.

Before the arrival of Russian terrorists and fascists on our land in 2014, all these people were alive... all these people lived a peaceful life... all the cities were intact. 

We will never forget, we will never forgive.

Photos: Volodymyr Tarasov


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Cuerpo presente

La piedra es una frente donde los sueños gimen
sin tener agua curva ni cipreses helados,
La piedra es una espalda para llevar al tiempo
con árboles de lágrimas y cintas y planetas.
 
Yo he visto lluvias grises hacia las olas
levantando sus tiernos brazos acribillados,
para no ser cazadas por la piedra tendida
que desata sus miembros sin empapar la sangre.
 
Porque la piedra coge simientes y nublados,
esqueletos de alondras y lobos de penumbra;
pero no da sonidos, ni cristales, ni fuego,
sino plazas y plazas y otras plazas sin muros.
 
Ya está sobre la piedra Ignacio el bien nacido.
Ya se acabó; ¿que pasa? Contemplad su figura:
la muerte le ha cubierto de pálidos azufres
y le ha puesto cabeza de oscuro minotauro.
 
Ya se acabó. La lluvia penetra por su boca.
El aire como loco deja su pecho hundido,
y el Amor, empapado con lágrimas de nieve,
se calienta en la cumbre de las ganaderías.
 
¿Qué dicen? Un silencio con hedores reposa.
Estamos con un cuerpo presente que se esfuma,
con una forma clara que tuvo ruiseñores
y la vemos llenarse de agujeros sin fondo.
 
¿Quién arruga el sudario? ¡No es verdad lo que dice!
Aquí no canta nadie, ni llora en el rincón,
ni pica las espuelas, ni espanta la serpiente:
aquí no quiero más que los ojos redondos
para ver ese cuerpo sin posible descanso.
 
Yo quiero ver aquí los hombres de voz dura.
Los que doman caballos y dominan los ríos:
los hombres que les suena el esqueleto y cantan
con una boca llena de sol y pedernales.
 
Aquí quiero yo verlos. Delante de la piedra.
Delante de este cuerpo con las riendas quebradas.
Yo quiero que me enseñen donde está la salida
para este capitán atado por la muerte.
 
Yo quiero que me enseñen un llanto como un río
que tenga dulces nieblas y profundas orillas,
para llevar el cuerpo de Ignacio y que se pierda
sin escuchar el doble resuello de los toros.
 
Que se pierda en la plaza redonda de la luna
que finge cuando niña doliente res inmóvil;
que se pierda en la noche sin canto de los peces
y en la maleza blanca del humo congelado.
 
No quiero que le tapen la cara con pañuelos
para que se acostumbre con la muerte que lleva.
Vete Ignacio: No sientas el caliente bramido.
Duerme, vuela, reposa: ¡También se muere el mar!

— Federico García Lorca, Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez MejíasCuerpo presente (1935)



Below is (a tentative - MNC) English translation of the above text.


The Body Laid-Out

The stone is a brow where dreams groan,
holding no winding water or frozen cypress.
The stone is a shoulder to bear time
with trees of tears, ribbons, planets.

I have watched grey rains running to the waves
lifting their fragile, riddled arms,
so as not to be caught by the outstretched stone
that unties their limbs without drinking their blood.

Because stone collects seeds and banks of cloud,
skeletons of larks and twilight wolves,
but gives up no sounds, crystals, fire, only bullrings
and bullrings, and more bullrings with no walls.

Now Ignacio the well-born lies on the stone.
Now it’s done. What passes? Contemplate his form!
Death has covered him with pale sulphur
given him the head of a dark minotaur.

Now it’s done! Rain penetrates his mouth.
Air rises mad from his sunken chest,
and love, soaked with tears of snow,
warms himself on the heights among herds.

What are they saying? A stinking silence settles.
We are with a laid-out corpse that vanishes,
with a clear form that held nightingales
and we see it riddled with countless holes.

Who disturbs the shroud? It’s not true what he says!
No one’s singing here, or weeps in a corner,
or pricks his spurs, or frightens off snakes:
here I want nothing but open eyes
to see that body that can’t rest.

I want to see the men with harsh voices here.
Those who tame horses and subdue rivers:
the men who rattle their bones and sing
with a mouth full of sun and flints.

I want to see them here. In front of the stone.
In front of this body with broken sinews.
I want them to show me where there’s an exit
for this captain bound by death.

I want them to show me grief like a river
that has sweet mists and steep banks
to bear Ignacio’s body, and let him be lost
without hearing the double snort of the bulls.

Let him be lost in the moon’s round bullring
who pretends to be immobile as a grieving girl;
let him be lost in the night with no singing of fish
and in the white weeds of congealed smoke.

I don’t want them to cover his face with a cloth,
so, he can grow accustomed to death that he bears.
Go, Ignacio: don’t feel the hot bellowing.
Sleep, soar, rest: even the ocean dies!

— Federico García Lorca, Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, The Body Laid-Out
Translated from the Spanish by A. S. Kline (Website)



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  1. It is so sad that this war (Russian Invasion of Sovereign Ukraine-2014 and again 2022 and continues on currently) happened and drags on still to this day with no end in sight. The loss of life both civilian and military did not have to happen- it was brought on by Putin and his supporters and 100% illegal (and bears reminding to all that the costs in increased $$ for oil/gas and food prices did not have to happen but it did. Ukraine (as with other places: Mynamar etc) needs our support (and it can spread- if not stopped) sad but true.

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