MOON RISING OVER THE LOCH

THE MOON WAKES

When the moon sails out
the bells fade into stillness
and there emerge the pathways
that can’t be penetrated.

When the moon sails out
the water hides earth’s surface,
the heart feels like an island
in the infinite silence.

Nobody eats an orange
under the moon’s fullness.
It is correct to eat, then,
green and icy fruit.

When the moon sails out
with a hundred identical faces,
the coins made of silver
sob in your pocket.


Federico García Lorca
(1898-1936)
Widely regarded as one of Spain’s greatest writers,
surrealist andalusian poet and friend of Salvador Dali.
Lorca was killed by pro-Franco forces in the early days
of the Spanish Civil War. Along with his literary achievements
his early death sealed his posthumous reputation as a political martyr.