for Marisa Foz del Barrio

You divorced on the first day
it was legal, were imprisoned
three times as a Communist
under Franco, still dyed your hair
blonde and – at the age I am now –
still lived with your parents’
bourgeois furniture (those impossible beds),
the drapes and porcelain from another era,
one you’d rebelled against
but kept close by, as if to understand
yourself better.