RIVER BEND
I want to return to childhood
and from childhood to the shadows.
Are you going, nightingale?
Go!
I want to return to the shadows,
and from the shadows to the flower.
Are you going, fragrance?
Go!
I want to return to the flower
and from the flower
to my heart.
Are you going, love?
Farewell!
(To my abandoned heart!)

Federico García Lorca
Translation by A. S. Kline