One Hundred Years of Solitude

make the worms shrivel up
and drop off cows, and her
timid mother, and her cousin
with the pigs tail, and José
Arcadio Buendía, and her
dead sons, all sitting in chairs
lined up against the wall as if
it were a wake and not a visit.
She was tying a colorful
string of chatter together,
commenting on things from
many separate places and
many different times, so that
when Amaranta Úrsula