poetry
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Poète Maudit, Again
I have known all the factes of what the ancient Greeks meant by mania: inspired frenz,y mad passion, a word related to seer. Poetry is, for me, not just an avocation or a talent or a study; it is posesion by a force older than humanity or how else to explain the creation of the… Continue reading
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Easy Come, Easy…Wait WTF?
This is so weird. I’ve never had poems accepted, published electronically and then taken down because I somehow after the fact was determined not to fit their editorial vision. Yes I read the themes statement in the call. On the Theme Blue Spring – Recollection & the Interior Life Recollection Cultural memory and ancestral reverence.… Continue reading
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Poète Maudite Part Deux
Being a conduit for lightning is difficult for those around me when it spills over into incesssnt chatter or abrupt irritability so I try to keep it locked in this office like Frankenstein’s monster, venting mostly on the page. Continue reading
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Dead Zone
My butterfly plants draw only waspsThe mosquito truck passes (again)incidentally erasing the dragonfliesLawns around are perfectharlequin green rectanglesChildren search in vain for a dandelion to make a wishfor butterflies & dragonflies Continue reading
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Poète Maudit
I wish to claim the designation poète maudit not as Verlaine first meant, the edgy Madness of Baudelaire and Rimbaud. I know what poète maudit looks like. Thaddeus Comti was my friend. I claim it as one possessed by poetry, mounted as by a loa. Is this symptomatic or bipolar disorder as some believe, or… Continue reading
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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