Poets Remains Not Yet Found

Excavations in southern Spain, notes Reuters, have failed to find the remains of Spanish poet Frederico Garcia Lorca. His killing in 1936 became a symbol for Spain's brutal civil war.

The Guitar
by Federico García Lorca
Translated by Cola Franzen

The weeping of the guitar
begins.
The goblets of dawn
are smashed.
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
Useless
to silence it.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps monotonously
as water weeps
as the wind weeps
over snowfields.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps for distant
things.
Hot southern sands
yearning for white camellias.
Weeps arrow without target
evening without morning
and the first dead bird
on the branch.
Oh, guitar!
Heart mortally wounded
by five swords.