GACELA DEL AMOR IMPREVISTO, TRANSLATION BY WALLY SWIST

From Gacela del Amor Imprevisto by Federico Garcia Lorca

Malaguena

La muerte
entra y sale
de la taberna.

Pasan caballos negros
y gente siniestra
por los hondos caminos
de la guitarra.

Y hay un olor a sal
y a sangre de hembra,
en los nardos febrilles
de la marina.

La muerte
entra y sale,
y sale y entra
la muerte
de la taberna.

MALAGUENA

Death
enters and leaves
the tavern.

Dark horses pass
and sinister people
ride over the deep sound
of the guitar.

And there is an odor of salt
and the blood of women,
of the feverish tuberose
in what is marine.

Death
enters and leaves,
death
leaves and enters
the tavern.