ANDALUSIAN GIRL
By Tom Leonard
Dedicated to Hasna BenHadi Chekh
Out of Malaga,
Cross the Med from Ceuta,
Spanish by birth,
Yet Moorish by ancestry,
Shades of ancient Carthage
Bundle of energy
Sells plush clothes in Embro's lush new shopping centre
Runs the gauntlet of Zara's escalators
As she pleases customers from floor to floor
Then off on Route 66
To tend to sick relatives
In the towers that stretch to the sky,
Hyacinth is Manat and Alilat combined
A Goddess of Luck and Fortune so refined.
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