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Wednesday September 07, 2005

abandoned to fall [a poem] blue shutter

in new orleans,
shutters are useless now.
there is nothing
behind the wall.

there are no lives,
no jazz,
no hope
that is real.

there is only
great loss
pontchartrain tears
and ghosts
and one question
above all

why, please tell
we were abandoned
to fall.

new orleans, 1718-2005.

[image from the corner of chartres and ursulines. oz/98]

[lightly revised. this amateurish poem is as close as i can get to write about the loss of a city i visited and photographed many times. alas i do not know many of the other cities and towns devastated by katrina.]

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