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Winter 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Carnival

                          Barcelona

Sure the advertisements are full of advice. They beseech
   everyone to get drunk or go
on vacation, to keep journeying to fill the wrenched vacancy,
   keep moving forward to find out

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