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Gacela: The Love that Hides from View

Just so as to hear
the bell of the Vela
I crowned you with verbena.

Granada was a moon
drowned in the ivy.

Just so as to hear
the bell of the Vela
I ripped up my garden in Cartagena.

Granada was a doe
pink among the weather vanes.

Just so as to hear
the bell of the Vela
I burned in your body
without knowing whose it was.

 

English translation by Paul Archer of Lorca's Gacela del amor que no se deja ver.
For more poems from this collection, go to El Diván Del Tamarit.

Translator's note:
The Torre de la Vela is a tower that was once part of the ancient citadel of Granada. In the past the tower's bell chimes controlled the irrigation system of Granada's fertile plain, the Vega.

Lorca's
El Diván
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