
“Barcelona” by Ana Maria Edulescu
softened sibilance
charming distinction
a lilting of grace-notes
touches the tongues
of poets and peasants
in liege to the pennon
of red yellow stripes
crown of aragon
ruling with sea-speak
of past thalassocracy
sweetened by language
of romance and empire
warm and seductive
as the balear sun
a language now given
expression in tangible
modernist forms
architectural phrases
of reverent eccentric
glissade by gaudí
la sagrada familia