she just got back from Spain

weeks after

she returns

from Spain, she's still wearing

the orange

and yellow

and red 

dress

that she bought

in Madrid,

and the big earrings.

her lips

seem swollen

with bold dark lipstick.

she's hanging

onto

the accent too.

though mangling the words.

you must come

over

for Sangria

and paella soon,

she tells me,

on the phone. i can hear

the clicking

of castanets and the tapping

of her high heel

shoes

in her freshly painted

stucco sunroom.