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Garden Tour Cancelled

Collection

Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

Last day before everlasting fast Shrove Tuesday excessive indulgent gourmandise Masked ball carnival tarnished doubloons Bourbon Streetwise jazz foregone conclusion

Congealed sacrificial voodoo bloodstream staining Gingerbread palm whitewashed mansion gables Strewn windswept blossoms premature wilt Pitiless magnolias rejecting timeless mercy

Tin cup of graciousness empty Flipped coin faces wiped clean Indecipherable heads versus tails dichotomies Picked pockets turned inside out

Citation

“Garden Tour Cancelled,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26188.