We old women see through walls. - Federico García Lorca

Llena, pues, de palabras mi locura
o déjame vivir en mi serena
noche del alma para siempre oscura.

The bull does not know you, nor the fig tree,
nor the horses, nor the ants in your own house.
The child and the afternoon do not know you
because you have died forever. The shoulder of the stone does not know you
nor the black silk on which you are crumbling.
Your silent memory does not know you
because you have died forever. The autumn will come with conches,
misty grapes and clustered hills,
but no one will look into your eyes
because you have died forever. Because you have died for ever,
like all the dead of the earth,
like all the dead who are forgotten
in a heap of lifeless dogs. Nobody knows you. No. But I sing of you.
For posterity I sing of your profile and grace.
Of the signal maturity of your understanding.
Of your appetite for death and the taste of its mouth.
Of the sadness of your once valiant gaiety.

The still pool of air
under the branch of echo. The still pool of water
under a frond of stars. The still pool of your mouth
under a thicket of kisses.