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Por el agua de Granada sólo reman los suspiros.

  Baladilla de los tres ríos A Salvador Quintero Guadalquivir winds between the oranges and olives Granada’s two rivers flow from snow to wheat. O, my love you went and you never came home. Guadalquivir whose beard flows with garnets Granada’s two rivers tears and blood. O, my love you vanished in thin air. At Seville the sailing ships ride in the roads the waters of Granada rowed only by sighs. O, my love you went and you never came home. Guadalquivir high tower the wind among the orange groves Dauro and Genil little towers dead above the pools. O, my love you vanished in thin air. Who can say what floats in the waters? a will o’ the wisp of screams. O, my love you went and you never came home. Olives and orange blossom Andalusia carry into your sea.  O, my love you vanished in thin air. FGL (1931) PSY (Jan. 2025)

A Journey to the Moon

Viaje a la Luna 1 White bed on a grey wall. Across the bedclothes a dance unfolds 13 & 22. First two, then more till they cover the bed like ants. 2 The bedclothes are torn off the bed by an invisible hand. 3 Big feet run fast in black and white lozenged socks. 4 A frightened head gaze fixed on a point dissolves into a wire head against a backdrop of water. 5 Letters help help help double exposure a vulva moving up and down. 6 A long corridor traversed by the machine a window down the end.  7 A view of Broadway by night. 8 Dissolve to previous scene. 9 A pair of legs swing quickly. 10 Legs dissolve into a mass of trembling hands. 11 Trembling hands double-exposure a weeping child. 12 The weeping child double-exposure the woman  who beats him. 13 Fade to the long corridor camera moving backwards fast. 14 At the end wide shot of an eye double-exposure a fish dissolving into what follows. 15 Falling fast through a window letters double-exposed in blue help help . 16 Dissolve...