Towards Tao

Today there's more beauty
Than I had bargained for:
The sky that stark blue

The sirocco wind stirs
The air, desert warmed
And out on the campo, midfield

On a half emerged lava stack
A string of egrets on their picket line
Toughing it out

Little has changed
Walking through the vega here
Through the only view

Protected by Timanfaya 
Lanzarote's recurring theme
A distinctive vista

From just behind San Bartolomé
Through the bodegas
The finest wines imaginable

Where small vines are shielded
Nestled in their pits
Pooling with picon

I remember that calima
A week of dust and heat
That smothered this lavascape

And Casona De Tao, rising above
Like an exotic wedding cake




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