Wednesday, 30 October 2013

The little mute boy


The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.

I do not want it for speaking with;
I will make a ring of it
so that he may wear my silence
on his little finger

In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.

(The captive voice, far away,
put on a cricket's clothes.)

Federico García Lorca
translated by W. S. Merwin

(Picture: untitled, Zdislav Beksinski)

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