SAD WARS Sad wars if love is not the aim. Sad, sad. Sad weapons if they are not words. Sad, sad. Sad men if they did not die for love. Sad, sad. Miguel Hernández English translation by Ted Genoways |
Man Ray, A l’heure de l’observatoire, les amoureux (Observatory Time: The Lovers), 1934. Courtesy of Centre Pompidou, Paris. |
IT DID NOT WANT TO BE It did not recognise the meeting of the he and she. The blossom so enamoured could not become flowery. It stopped its senses, refused discovery, descended diaphanous before light’s clarity. It saw tomorrow’s cloudiness, stayed, in yesterday’s history. It did not want to be. Miguel Hernández English translation by Anthony S. Kline |
SAD WARS Sad wars if love is not the aim. Sad, sad. Sad weapons if they are not words. Sad, sad. Sad men if they did not die for love. Sad, sad. Miguel Hernández English translation by Ted Genoways |
Take me, take me. Leave me, leave me. Wild beasts, men, shadows, suns, flowers, seas. Take me. Leave me. Miguel Hernández English translation by Michael Smith |
Cinderella’s shoe is being transformed into the Holy Graal. Photo © Natasha Pszenicki. |
