”At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.” Lorca

Lorca’s blood wedding
menstrual bleeding 
Into lemon-tree-soil
nothing more than the toil, toil, toil
of peasant life in Al-Andalus.

Priests chant their rosary
like it was El Maleh Rachamim
or the Mourner’s Kaddish
(which it probably was, if the priest
was a Jew, a Converso, who  changed his religion
to save his life or, maybe, the lives of his children).

The Muslim converts prayed louder,
than did the Spanish-Goths. These converts never coughed,
but touched the head-covering they did not wear.
What they did on Fridays was only the business
Of the Inquisition.
Many Moriscos fled to Morocco, Lebanon.
To the centres of the Islamic world: Damascus, Baghdad.

But  nearly 450 years after the surrender on January 2, 1492
of the Emirate of Granada's Muslim forces
to the Christian Castillian army of Ferdinand and Isabella
Franco’s Moroccan units commit numerous atrocities
of revenge in many Spanish cities, including Toledo
murdering men, women and children 
These Moriscos helped defeat the Spanish, Socialist Republic,
Thus allying Spain with Italian Fascists and German Nazis.

Well, I just like a drink now and again:
Wine, brandy, what you will.
I wonder what the people in the future
Will remember of these times past?