{"id":7929,"date":"2021-08-30T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/cita\/ghazal-of-the-dead-boy\/"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:41:25","slug":"ghazal-of-the-dead-boy","status":"publish","type":"cita","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/cita\/ghazal-of-the-dead-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghazal of the Dead Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todas las tardes en Granada,<br \/>\n[Every evening in Granada,]<br \/>\ntodas las tardes se muere un ni\u00f1o.<br \/>\n[every evening there is a boy dying.]<br \/>\nTodas las tardes el agua se sienta<br \/>\n[Every evening he sits under water]<br \/>\na conversar con sus amigos.<br \/>\n[talking with his friends.]<\/p>\n<p>Los muertos llevan alas de musgo.<br \/>\n[The dead have wings of moss.]<br \/>\nEl viento nublado y el viento limpio<br \/>\n[The cloudy wind and the clear wind]<br \/>\nson dos faisanes que vuelan por las torres<br \/>\n[are two pheasants flying by the towers]<br \/>\ny el d\u00eda es un muchacho herido.<br \/>\n[and the day is a wounded boy.]<\/p>\n<p>No quedaba en el aire ni una brizna de alondra<br \/>\n[There was not a trace of skylark in the air]<br \/>\ncuando yo te encontr\u00e9 por las grutas del vino<br \/>\n[when I found you by the wine caves.]<br \/>\nNo quedaba en la tierra ni una miga de nube<br \/>\n[There was not a wisp of cloud]<br \/>\ncuando te ahogabas por el r\u00edo.<br \/>\n[when you were drowning in the river.]<\/p>\n<p>Un gigante de agua cay\u00f3 sobre los montes<br \/>\n[A water giant fell upon the mountains]<br \/>\ny el valle fue rodando con perros y con lirios.<br \/>\n[and the valley roiled with dogs and lilies.]<br \/>\nTu cuerpo, con la sombra violeta de mis manos,<br \/>\n[Your body, by my hands\u2019 violet shadows,]<br \/>\nera, muerto en la orilla, un arc\u00e1ngel de fr\u00edo.<br \/>\n[was, dead on the shore, a frozen archangel.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7929","cita","type-cita","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cita\/7929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cita"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cita"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}