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It’s All Too Much
At last my soul explodes! “Anywhere! Just so it is out of the world!” — Charles Baudelaire You were never meant to hold that much without breaking, the ad for some tincture promising happiness said. The fan of folders overrunning your desk, incessant instant messages, discordant chorus of desk telephones, flickering fluorescent overcast. It’s… 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, Trampoline, Unlikely Stories, Peauxdunque Review, LMNL Anthology, 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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