Grandparents

Have you found out who they were?

She kept diamonds in paper bags
lived in wretched houses with one bed
one cup to drink coffee from
and no servant who might discover
the jewels in her purse.

And he was a butcher. Barefoot
illiterate, counting gold coins
that he stored in clay pots.

There’s no more you need to know
about a country
that leaves nothing every day,
in your body.

Traslated from Spanish by Rowena Hill