The Poetry of Spain


Look at the woman over there

Which woman

The small woman in a green dress

She is reading a timetable of buses

It seems to fascinate her

Do you think she is the author

I doubt it

Why do you say that

Look at the thickness of the book

She also looks too young

Perhaps it was compiled by her father


May I look at your book illustrations

Please do here is my phone

There are only three works

Which in total took me a year to complete

Two of them are rather dark

As if painted on a dying day

Whereas the third one enjoys its light

I completed in Toledo when I was twenty-two

It is my favourite piece of work

Do you know that Toledo has a nickname

No

It is called

The Glass City

Why is that

It is because glass manufacturers

Chose to work there

In the late nineteenth century