Purple, Green, & Gold

It’s Fat Tuesday!

Some fave photos from Fat Tuesdays past

Purple Green and Gold

they joined the rabble rousers
in a street dance of abandon
on a night made of fantasy
purple, green, gold
jesters and skeletons and
a dominatrix with a whip
fleur de lis and masked revelers
drunken wet kisses, starbursts

of hair in disarray, eyes glazed,
dancing on tabletops
in a room of pulsing light
and gyrating bodies
validating their
wild and secret natures
for one night, in one place
forever in suspension

A version of this poem was published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, 2010.

Here’s a little Carnival for you - my favorite song of the season, “Hey Pocky Way” by The Neville Brothers. Happy Mardi Gras! ⚜️