For Margarita and her harp:
twin harps.

Who plays the harp of the rain?
My heart, sprinkled, stops to listen
to the water's music.
It stands, listening,
above the chalice of a rose.
What fingers move
over the trembling strings of the rain?
What phantom hand flings
drops of music into the air?

The heart, spellbound, listens:
The rose bends slowly under the rain.

(Spanish: Arpa ) from the book Juegos de Agua (1945). Permission to provide this deep link, courtesy of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes of the Universidad de Alicante in Alicante, Spain.

Translation by Judith Kerman. First published in Dulce María Loynaz: A Woman in Her Garden (Selected Poems), White Pine Press, 2002.