Dragonflies proclaim
Lunch to nibbling fish
By the irises
Egrets stalk
The deadfall shallows
Behind the irises
Passion purple, sun yellow
Bayou Iris celebrate
Semana Santa

Dragonflies proclaim
Lunch to nibbling fish
By the irises
Egrets stalk
The deadfall shallows
Behind the irises
Passion purple, sun yellow
Bayou Iris celebrate
Semana Santa

Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).
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