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O The Crescent Flows Muddy Red

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

O the crescent flows muddy red A bend of arterial dimensions

Full to rim and over- Filled with sins of fathers

Blowing hard without charts now Improvised in the tradition

Of nontradition. Stiff In a median overgrown, afloat

With other stiffs, rotting Without turning to dust - yeah

The tide is dust anyway Risen to the sky, wet and dry

You can blame no one You can blame me

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“O The Crescent Flows Muddy Red,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26272.