Audrey Friedman

Las Ramblas, Barcelona


July 7, 2000


Toucan reds and yellows
color Las Ramblas -- cages
line the median and feathers
flap. From Port Vell
to Placa de Catalunya, charcoal
scrapes paper as artists
sketch smiles. Sunflowers on stalks
greet passersby, while Lladro's subdued
blue-frocked girls and geese
gambol behind storefront glass.


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