One Hundred Years of Solitude

if she had contracted her
husbands hallucinating fever,
Úrsula fixed the position of
light and heat and distributed
space without the least sense
of its limitations. The
primitive building of the
founders became filled with
tools and materials, of
workmen exhausted by sweat,
who asked everybody please
not to molest them,
exasperated by the sack of
bones that followed them