FROM CIUTAT TO PUERTO DE ANDRATX

(BATH IN PORTALS VELLS AND VISIT TO THE CAVES)

 

Enjoy, dark body! the skin is vibrating, oozing

rhythms. The sea is light as a sky.

What boat of shadows, then, and thoughts fluctuate

by the swift horizon of my longing?

Boulders inside, a bleat

of centuries imprisoned stops the joy.

Everything is fogging with time. the skylight

of fine air cracks. there away

watches the fear. On the waves growls

loneliness, like a slow buoy.

Dos viatges per mar (Two sea voyages), 1965

Translated by Carlota Oliva.

(Manacor, 1923 – Barcelona, 1991). Jaume Vidal Alcover was a prolific writer of poems, narrative, plays and essays. Translations, critical reviews and studies on Catalan literature are also included in his literary career. Especially noteworthy are his poems L´hora verda (1951),  Sonets a Eurídice (1967) or Dos viatges per mar (1965), which earned him the Ciutat de Palma Prize.