For Spanish people, June is not just the beginning of summer and the month with the shortest night. In June 1985, Spain was admitted to the European Union; in June, the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí was born (1852–1926); also born were the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) and the poet and playwright from Granada Federico García Lorca (1898–1936).
I offer you an excerpt from a wonderful poem by Lorca, which is relatively easier for beginners – to translate or to learn:
Three Little Stories of the Wind
….
III
The breeze
is undulating
like the hair
of some girls.
Like the waves
of some old wooden boards.
The breeze
springs forth like water
and spills
– like a white balm –
through the ravines,
and faints
upon striking the hardness
of the mountain.