No sultan remains, only the echo of a fountain learning to mourn in slow arpeggios.
Here’s a short poetic piece inspired by Memorias de la Alhambra (the famous tremolo guitar piece by Francisco Tárrega, evoking the Moorish palace in Granada): memorias de la alhambra
The fountain does not ask time for permission. It keeps pouring its silver language over stones that once held the hem of sultanas. No sultan remains, only the echo of a
I walk where the myrtle holds its breath. Each arch, a drowsy eyelid; each column, a forgotten verse from the Quran. I walk where the myrtle holds its breath
The guitar trembles — not from cold, but from memory: the water still knows the names of the disappeared.
Inside the lions’ courtyard, shadows recite geometry. The moon, that old Christian spy, climbs the tiles and turns them into prayer rugs.
And I, a traveler late to my own death, carry the Alhambra inside a drop of water — weightless, eternal, dying in each tremolo.