DEATH OF A POET 3

Silver scorpions with crowns of gold
linked arms with silent grasshoppers,
an army of ants knelt and prayed
by the ground round the body
of precious Federico

Garcia Lorca,
the cheeky angel
the taunting imp
the agonised lover
lies still
very still

purple clouds embrace the butterflies
the melancholy grass sways
the electric demons hiss
the sand the mud
the emptiness
the dance of the wind

everything ends