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 While Down South

 

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Water unwashes

Storms and rages

While the butcher

 Baker

Candlestick maker

Sit on their roofs

Or rub-a-dub dub

In a make shift tub.

 

Spots are washed in

Stains are infused

While dregs of summer are stripped.

 

Even the trees succumb

…pear blossoms in autumn

betray confusion.

 

Unwashed and uncleansed

They soak, newly soiled.

jlh 

for Katrina Victims and Survivors