One Hundred Years of Solitude

spot in the courtyard, the
weeds broke through the
cement of the porch, breaking
it like glass, and out of the
cracks grew the same yellow
flowers that Úrsula had found
in the glass with Melquíades
false teeth a century before.
With neither the time nor the
resources to halt the
challenge of nature, Santa
Sofía de la Piedad spent the
day in the bedrooms driving
out the lizards who would