SEA
Sea surrounding Spain,
green in Cantabria,
mediterranean blue,
rough Cadiz sea,
waves touching unhappiness.
My poem complains
about the sound of rowing chains.
Small Concha sea,
sea full of bitterness in Malaga,
weap out
the years of brothers' war,
unite
in one large wave
the Spanish solitude.
Blas de Otero
Translated by Esperanza Arranz, Joanne Speak and Fokko Dijkstra