Gorgeous poem with vivid, post-modern imagery. I adore the Lolita references, and I'm sure that you paid close attention to the prose style to produce such a lovely piece of work. Kudos!

now this is lovely...steeped in knowledge, so much so that i dont get all the refferences - who/what is valencia? I know, i'm ignorant :P still, i know good poetry..do you like DH Lawrence? this reminds me just a little of his poetry...i like the line 'oh dear humbert, the spider, the lonely vampire', as it is a defining image of the character of Humbert Humbert, feeding off lolita's golden beauty, an image as primally and irrationally hocking as is the sight of a spider suddenly close by ones own skin. am i overanalysing that one tiny fragment? oh yes :P sorry, i just like the poem and have latched onto the one line that really spoke to me.

Makes me want to bite my fist,

reading it does.

God, you're so talented! I'm dying of envy here! This is entirely too beautiful. I especially liked:

"something magical about barcelona

and the curving spirals of gaudi’s intestines

weave forever the sacred family’s strangled spyres

borodin weeps on'

This is amazing

*thanks for the reviews!*