Raval

[Alexearth]

I really love this poem.  It captures a certain stately antiquity, despite the images of a sputtering city filled with drab, smoking inhabitants.  Raval's sort of like an impoverished aristocratic dowager, or at least that's the feeling I get.

Thanks for your comment! The Raval is a popular neighborhood in Barcelona were I used to live, which is very active, alive and colorful at day, but finds a certain darkness at night (the supposedly most dangerous area in the center of the city) which I find inspiring. This is also only the first part of a poem about that subject, the negative part so to say! Thanks again


Alex