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Free verse, imagery, Louisianian lore, and historical lament
Drops Like Creole
slant-whisped through lives lost along Petite Coquille
Lagniappe is a melting pot
of Irish Channel fleur-de-lis
sequins sewn to headdress
suspended blunt in myriad
velvet water tapestry
blown with iris buds and hyacinth
from above Atchafalaya.
Sun. White. Refraction
for the glory of a moment
from rose’ to cyan to violet
as history recants in whispers
to bend time through the rains
from slave quarters
to Lee Circle unbounded
through brackish downdrafts
like misted sermons to a choir
slant-whisped through lives lost
along Petite Coquille
to obliterate in absorption
with baby’s breath and hurricanes
sautéed to griades of cumulus
within the switch and the marshes
scolding Bayou Sauvage.
Dionne Charlet is a poet and freelance writer. Her interviews, book reviews, music and entertainment articles appear in Where Y’at Magazine. Her poetry has been published in Ladowich Magazine, the By Gaslight Anthology Series, and the Inklings: Louisiana Writers Anthology Series.
