We go to New Orleans in April, for trombones and crawfish, for sun on our faces, for the muddy curve of the Mississippi as we ferry from Algiers Point to the East Bank, step off the boat with renewal in mind. Jasmine peppers the air everywhere. Persephone stepped out from a cleft in the earth, […]
Abner Oakes
Abner Oakes taught middle and high school English for 16 years and has had poems published in the Potomac Review, the Maryland Poetry Review, and the Baltimore Review. He lives in Bethesda, MD.