Elsa

All these constant issues, that deny your needs, raise other issues, they hang like skeletons, with lip sticky greed, ride out in a peloton, standing by the beach, you say let me be, love’s just out of reach, not particularly elegant, our frugal solidarity, but money starts its dance, a manifest delicious, waltzing to its earthly creed, between shore and distance, salty tears continue , your eyes gaze out to sea, a pocket full of tissues, lay scattered at your feet.

Ella

The light swinging at Faro, green evening stripes the beach, smell of sardines from boats, at the raging kitchen, I smell rain and sea, warm against the beam ends, while you eat alone , I bring you tea, filled with words of stone, don't try to insist, another happier reach, I don't fit in , she wants to dance and sing, but her opacity, splits me like lightning, cuts me to the bone, above my frayed dungarees, birds from Africa fly home, will she ever see ?

Delilah

You laugh like Camus, but it’s not the heat, deserts delight you, you’d say that fools, always miss the beat, when looking at ruins, you are like an almond, brown and seventeen, before the sun and wind, will you sail away, like their leaves, when autumn scrapes, over poverty yellow and grey, hurt dreams, Spring returns on hot days, inside you hum a tune, turn your head serene, ignore the blues, your spirit runs deep.

Dee

Am pretty sure of what to do, around your knees, a tattered sheepskin to warm you, birds cling to the ferry, passion doesn't crease me, we hardly went on holiday, your lover and your son, say I'm not easy, well, what's done is done, interesting but uncaring, you'd never fight for me, water brings another yearning, which is sad but true, when orange lights the sea, I’m not thinking of you, this night of coming liberty, we’ll drink Merlot at tea, drunk en famille pass crudites, set our lost ghosts free.

Diana

Great swollen days, without your care, makes me want to say, yes, go on, watch me dance, you know about mares, you've never had to ask, you smoke without craving, drink fino from a chair, like you’re some player, white faced dinero, dark glasses, you breathe thin air, shout mas vino, tapitas, clap, are my legs your craze, this tail end of an affair, music drifts away, no wonder you should chance, to live without prayer, like being tasked, with no love to spare !!!

Cresta

Standing by the beach, she says don't leave me, I’m only crying for the sea, can anyone retain, that unforgiving need, when you've derailed a train, I say take it easy, what do you want me to be, she shrugs at our destiny, dunes shift in the evening, in her eyes a steel, she says 'you’ll bleed', I hum an innocent refrain, how to enjoy freedom, when no promise is made, a life of dull marriage, is not for me, pretend they don’t matter the could have beens?.

Carrie

You'd gamble anything, your daughter says, including unforgiven fights, draining you like a drain, the times she swayed, in falling snow or rain, within your blue eyes, could you ever retain,, the time she most prized, letting go as you came in, was she always that way, smoking her Capstan, make her smile anyway, chuckle on her Saint’s day, dissolve each loss with gain, unhook the gas ring, make tea on the range, dogged by such things is no one to blame ?