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Friday, January 16, 2009

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 Garcia Lorca
Translated by William S. Merwin

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