Song from Cadiz
by Zoe VanGunten
What do I care
if one team wins?
If the night is warm and wet,
Let's hunt snails!
Let's live together!
tri li li, onward...
Come to my table, salt shaker,
don't hide, I've already seen you
a long ways back
I've got crystals and herbs
aye, lad
I have wax and it's from bees
marbles blown of glass
sheep skins and saltplenty of salt,
but these lines to Mirabras
are for you and you only
I started them
when
I saw you from afar
Zoe VanGunten reads and writes whenever and wherever luck strikes: Toledo, El Rito, Austin, Pamplona, Sevilla, Santa Fe—always on the bus at the last moment and happier nearer a window. This poem was written during a snowy Alamosa winter in the company of two very old German breed dogs and a tall bundled man faceting gemstones in the garage.