One Hundred Years of Solitude

the shade of an almond tree
that was honored by three
nests of redbreasts, with a
large door for visitors and
four windows for light, they
set up a hospitable home.
Rebecas old friends, among
them four of the Moscote
sisters who were still single,
once more took up the
sessions of embroidery that
had been interrupted years
before on the porch with the
begonias. José Arcadio