New Orleans Variations
An exploration of pre-Katrina New Orleans, where the Carnival of archetypes paraded invisibly through daily life, and the synchronicity of eternal moments was visible behind the veil of change. The book explores this celebration of what Blake meant when he stated: Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Dalt's Dream
A few days before he collapsed
in Walgreens and was
rushed to Charity Hospital
with blood on the brain
ranting in French before losing
consciousness Dalt dreamed
he stood on the steps of a church
where a man holding his soul
in a box told him—
"There are some problems here,"
in a tone that suggested
irony rather than gravity
but the longer he waited
to hear the details the more
his heart sank until the man
finally went on to say—
We have placed it in the waters
and it has been washed clean
after which Dalt gazed in wonder
at this other who remained
standing above him with his
soul in a box until he woke up
thinking this the best dream
he's had since the one that ended
with a vision of the acropolis
in splendor at dawn.
