The Wild Parrots of Marigny is here!

My latest poetry collection, The Wild Parrots of Marigny (Querencia Press) is now available from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. You can read a description of the chapbook here, and you can also read a post I wrote for the Querencia Press Blog--"Writing About Place--The Wild Parrots of Marigny."

 "...Diving headlong into some form of wreckage that was once Louisiana and New Orleans after the ‘natural disaster’ that was Hurricane Katrina, her poems revive the battered corpse of memory, collective and individual...."
--Jan Keough, editor, Origami Poems Project

 

"Cut one slice, then behold the jewel-like
structure, moist and inviting in shades
of scarlet and orange. You may have to sit
down, should swooning be imminent."

From "How to Eat a Creole Tomato Sandwich"

"Mist covers Lake Martin,
blurring the white and pink,
floating through miles of ancient branches,
laying a soft veil over the swamp,
hiding it from the world."

From "At Lake Martin"

"...We are tough, we are resilient,
but we are powerless to escape
the sounds—the roar of generators,
the constant buzz of saws—the sounds
of Katrina. They blow through
the deepest recesses of our psyches,
they flow like restless bayous
through our waking dreams...."

From "Storm Debris"