Well Bottom Blues

Oh my God it's full of stars!


Lady Cardinal

discrete gray brown

camouflage

touch of blush 

on the wings

unafraid as I pass

not skittish

but side eye

wary

while their men

screech & hollar

in them devil red

suits they bought 

at Urban Bird

with those shoes!



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About Me

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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