San Fernando
Writer, Rebecca W Morris, and photographer, Matteo Delred, capture thoughts and images at (almost) all of the train stops from Jerez de la Frontera to Cadiz on the Cercanias trainline. For each stop, one piece of writing is written and one photo is chosen. Seeing the same things they'd seen so many times, but with new eyes, going to the weird corners of Cadiz they thought they'd never visit.
Lose the shame in San Fernando
You can be gay in San Fernando
Ring yer bell in San Fernando
Let it hang out in San Fernando
Dance in a darkroom por tangos
Clutch a lover to your heart -
It's San Fernando!
They laugh. We laugh.
The guiri lady
White as white
- She doesn't go to the beach
They say!
Says she is from Jerez
But they know she's not.
- Venga!
- Cuidate!
- Hasta luego!
Blow a kiss with each word
In San Fernando.
The poniente runs through San Fernando
I just want my moment in San Fernando
By the salt marshes
Where the fish get fat
My friend told me that
As we whooshed
By on the train
To take a paseo in Cádiz centro
A different sound to San Fernando
You have to be there to know
I am humbled to have
Been invited to your patio
Juana Cruz Castro and
El rey de los gitanos
Carry each smacking palm
and foot tap -
Each sound from San Fernando
Kept. Treasured. Wept.