Samedi~the day our hearts stood still

I can smell jasmine and oleander covering this evening like a wide cotton bed sheet of white class lace. And I taste her breath of red wine and cigarettes and Mary Jane and Bloody Mary coughing on the banquette by the gate of this courtyard in the Marigny. I lay me down my soul to sleep.
But the Heat won't let me. So, I lie awake and dream of a dog park, a bald green lot, with 2 trees beside the coffee warehouse. You can see the bags loading in off the dock. You can feel it on your skin when they roast it up. There the people gather with their very best friends and drink in the shade and talk in the wind, while this flat bywater sunset finds them, laying down their entire lives. There was a time, when all these houses built from barge wood gave strong men right livelihood as they flooded in from the River.
You may know the sounds of unbroken belief, with a bucket of seeds and the pigeons beside you, as you fly down the wet stones of the street to a little cafe' named for the Goddess of Flowers.
There the 8~Ball lines up with a Lucky~13, and Snake Eyes and Diamond and Demons in Chains. And Angel waits for Saint Ann to begin, with her masque made of sorry and a laugh made of sin.
So when I die, do please carry me down Royal Street, with a brass band on a 2nd Line beat by the courtyards in the Marigny.

Thank you all for sticking with the Ladder these past few years since we launched. All youz Gentle'rillas have raised us to a level above the miasma at around 350 hits/day Solid.
We are so gratified to visit the city that care forgot and the presidente left for dead, and meet those of you who follow this daily testiment to public record. That is all we have ever done... well, of course Editilla does have a Bent for the Exquisite Corps.
But I am here, at home with The Lady.
We traveled today with friends about the flooded plain and enjoyed the fruits of all these hard working survivors and bloggers and activist who keep New Orleans going Sinn Féin.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart every one.

Flags~Village of the Slabbed

Coalition of organizations now 77 strong!~SaveCharityHospital.com

Jarvis DeBerry: Four years after Katrina: loving New Orleans, facing the consequences

Obama Pledges To Push Ahead With Katrina Recovery ~AP

Corps Misses Deadline To Repair Salty Levees ~WDSU

Health clinic keeps New Orleans music alive~Mark Potter