“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”

— Federico García Lorca

" Casidas http://www.poesia-inter.net/fgldt204.htm," IV: Casida de la Mujer Tendida from Primeras Canciones (1936)

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Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director 1898–1936

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