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Bayou's Virtue
Patience as Louisiana weather.
Patience in Louisiana is not virtue signaling. It is cypress shade, Spanish moss, the second line teaching your feet that arrival can be slow and still be joy.
The steamboat does not hurry for your poem. The turtle on the bank has politics you cannot afford.
New Orleans offers repose with teeth underneath — wait long enough and the current tells you who you are.
The moss still sways after the brass stops.
JV · Dark Heart Labs