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London, 1899. Photo by Leonard Misonne
On the bayou you ate crawfish
and god how I wished I had never become a vegetarian.
See here, whatever you came carrying
fell to the ground like creole soul rain drops
uptown you could watch the jazz notes float
from porch swings to sidewalks
of little girls playing jump rope and hopscotch
to old women skipping rocks
across the gulf of the mississippi
like heart beats they forgot they had.
While mid-city trombones
wrote love poems in lonely men’s ears.
Take me back. Another vaca is definitely needed 😩