senryu cluster

thin rain, not moving not doing a thing 

yellow tulips: inexpensive candles in the dark 

sober tonight...

         the need to work 

a trite thing

bayou heat—

   family dressin' up for a

*Fe Dodo

*a dance, ball in Kouri-Vini

heated day, American flag drenched in stickiness 

mumbling prayers, my mind full of thoughts and...

child's storytelling, sudden desire to laugh out loud 

list'nin' to zydeco, in distance the Louisiana/Texas boarder

with clumsy fingers, handling a thimble while sewing 

making *boudin, *Tant Blé's dress a scandalous red

*boudin: spicy sausage made from rice and pork

*Aunt Blue in Kouri-Vini (a descendant of the poet)

some lives are complicated, wild cane grows real wildly 

fresh manicure: drunken man stumbles around town artistically

nonchalance—

       suppose that's the child

between 'love' and 'hate' 

disdain—coming Summer with its 'friends' heat and humidity

unknown

festival—

sticky-

notes

all

over

bathroom

mirror

dark shadows in east, list'nin' to the Reverend's sermon 

willow trees, walkin' in and out of honeysuckle smell