Watching and waiting


07.45
Old Palma
Mallorca
Waiting for Juan Antonio

Plaza Saint Eulàlia
Peaceful
Sound of Senegalese street cleaners
Sound of Vasura trucks

07.30
Behold the sky is getting lighter
Rising from the shadows
In all its glory
The magnificent first Christian church
Santa Eulàlia

Two sleepy cafes awakening
The third already busy
Early morning workers
Sipping their Cortados
Enjoying Mallorquin ensaimadas

Admiring the vista
Dominating gothic church
Blazing fires
Leaping flames
An illusion of warmth

One of two ancient Jewish barrios
Before destruction
By The Catholic Monarchy
The Inquision
Conversos
Expulsion
Torture
Death

El Call
Call Jueu
Gone almost forever
But The Anousim
Aware of their Chuetas heritage
Are rising from the ashes
Like the Phoenix
Soaring
Reawakening
Claiming their hidden religion

08.00
Monday morning
Birds fly by
People walking to work
Cars coming and going

08.20
Juan Antonio is arriving
Jilliana is going


Jilliana Ranicar-Breese. Written in Plaza Saint Eulàlia, Palma 14.1.19