What is the Ph of forest when it’s littered
with broken concrete returning to its elements:
The highly-alkaline calcium hydroxide; the toxic Arsenic,
Barium, Lead, and Mercury?
Does someone monitor this in the arboretum,
or is this place meant as a glimpse of the post-human
world, the apocalyptic blossom of green, when the wild will swallow golf.
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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Well Bottom Blues 
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