Free verse, imagery, Louisianian lore, and historical lament
Drops Like Creole
slant-whisped through lives lost along Petite Coquille
Lagniappe is a melting pot of Irish Channel fleur-de-lis sequins sewn to headdress suspended blunt in myriad velvet water tapestry blown with iris buds and hyacinth from above Atchafalaya.
Sun. White. Refraction for the glory of a moment from rose’ to cyan to violet as history recants in whispers to bend time through the rains from slave quarters to Lee Circle unbounded through brackish downdrafts like misted sermons to a choir slant-whisped through lives lost along Petite Coquille to obliterate in absorption with baby’s breath and hurricanes sautéed to griades of cumulus within the switch and the marshes scolding Bayou Sauvage.
Dionne Charlet is a poet and freelance writer. Her interviews, book reviews, music and entertainment articles appear in Where Y’at Magazine. Her poetry has been published in Ladowich Magazine, the By Gaslight Anthology Series, and the Inklings: Louisiana Writers Anthology Series.
