cryptic envelopment
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El Nopal (39)
I first encountered this Lotería card at a very difficult point in my life. The interpretation I was presented from it was: you know what you need to do; now do it. I did, and I keep this image handy ever since to remind myself. Traditionally/Literally this card is read: Al nopal lo van a… Continue reading
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my mind is a mobile
my mind is a mobile, by turns Calder or crib, measuring the Brownian motion of a furiously idle mind Continue reading
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Death Will Tremble to Take Us
Charles Bukowski from a Life Magazine, December 1988, asking famous people for the meaning of life: Continue reading
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It’s All Yoo Much
The original long take: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nYJ8ouIAsjb8ZXRsOw62J5QaOwLr9ecO/view?usp=drivesdk Continue reading
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You have the blood of a poet
“You have the blood of a poet. You have that and always will. You show, in middle of savage things (that I like), the gentleness of your heart, that is so full of pain and light.” Federico García Lorca, from a letter to Miguel Hernández wr. c. April 1933 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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Well Bottom Blues 