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In Oratavo, a small Spanish town in Tenerife

Imagine the perfume of a million petals,
pulled apart and then rearranged,
heat radiating from ancient cobblestones,
streets closed to traffic become a stone canvas,
insects hum in their search for nectar,
crowds press close together on footpaths,
cordoned by flapping tape festooned with ribbons
the buzzing babble of thousands of voices,
watching the creation of hundreds of works of art,
tapestries of flowers, ordered into intricate pictures
mixed with volcanic sand and mountain soil,
a homage to nature and the Glory of God
fleeting beauty
trampled at dusk in gleeful destruction
by a procession of feet and carts.

Marie Noonan

Marie Noonan lives in Co. Waterford, Ireland. Her passion is travel. She blogs about her travels at https://marienoonanblog.wordpress.com She has been published in Kidding Around (Bradt Travel Guide) and shortlisted for Irish Times Amateur Travel Writer. Her fiction has appeared in The Waxed Lemon and New Irish Writing. She has read memoir pieces on Irish National Radio,  rte.’s Sunday Miscellany.

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