Sing. Sing a gray song!

 Sing. Sing a gray song!

Canción Cantada

En el gris,

el pajaro Griffón

se vestía de gris.

Y la niña Kikirikí

perdía su blancor

y forma allí.

Para entrar en el gris

me pinté de gris

¡Y cómo relumbraba

en el gris!

                           - Federico García Lorca

In “the gray” the vulture Griffón dresses himself to match. The young girl Cock-a-doodle-doo loses her pallor and takes on a gray disposition as well. And the singer in order to join them paints himself gray. And now he glows gray. How he glows gray!

     We don’t think of gray as glowing, do we? – or joyous? But here it is. The singer’s gray sparkles. His song is full of joy. Because all that belong together are together – bird, girl, and balladeer.

It’s gray outside today where I live. The sky has joined in the singing.

05.13.17

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  Thanks to her that helped with the Spanish – more, that pulled the blind man out of the ditch!