Translating Garcia Lorca

		for Pablo Medina

the danger is not
that he'll take over
my poems
but that when it happens
I won't know

(image of cow, of horse
of cadaver or sleepy river
or a pure and less 
than innocent love)

so when someone points it out
I won't see—
already eaten
devoured

From Tourist at Miracle by Mark Statman. Copyright © 2010 by Mark Statman. Used by permission of Hanging Loose Press. All rights reserved.