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A speaker created by this author wishes for a cloth thrown over them since “dawn will toss fistfuls of ants” with its “scorpion (-5[1])claws.” The lines, “a thousand crystal tambourines / struck at the dawn light” (15[1])are from a poem by this author that mentions two friends climbing “high balconies.” This author (15[1])thinks of a child “who longed to cut his heart open far out at sea” in a poem that begins, “I want to sleep the sleep of (*) apples.” A “sad breeze through the olive trees” ends a poem by this author which repeats “I will not see it” in the section “The Spilled Blood.” This author began a poem titled for sleepwalking with the line, “Green, how I want you green.” Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (“May-hee-ahss”) dies “at five in the afternoon” in, for 10 points, what Spanish author’s poem “Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter”? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Federico García Lorca [or Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca] (The unnamed poem clued in the first and third lines is “Gacela of the Dark Death.”)
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