Broad smile in my soul
as parka was replaced
with a polo, white on white,
with greens and garish
A wall of heat
a blanket, a caress
for my thickened
Yankee blood.
Sweat down my back
stuck to the streetcar,
though not Desire
on St. Charles Street.
Canal and Decatur
and Bourbon again.
Memories rushed
back of earlier visits
Oh to stay, to linger
to wander the streets again
to lounge, to luxuriate,
to bask in the February heat.
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edited November 17, 2018
February Heat – v2
8/7/04 18:11
February Heat
New Orleans
February 1996
when I interviewed at Tulane
&
November 16, 2018
Mood Indigo
May 1993
Mood Indigo
by Willie Humphrey
(93 years old in 1993)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Preservation Hall
&
edited November 16, 2018
Nice Tie – v2
8/7/04 18:05
Nice Tie
partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne
of Preservation Hall Jazz Band
at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club
726 St. Peters Street
New Orleans, LA
He was the bass player for the band and
he was the bass player in
“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie
Angel Heart (1987).
I gave him my tie, right off my neck
(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at
Downtown Crossing in Boston).
&
edited April 27, 2015
Congo Square – v3
(editing version 2)
edited November 4, 2018
Amazing Grace – v3
(editing original again)
edited April 16, 2015
Amazing Grace – v2
July 12, 2004 18:56 –
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville
at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
during a real wedding.
The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.
I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage
in the French Quarter that night.
&
edited April 13, 2015
Congo Square – v2
July 12, 2004 19:15.
Congo Square
Congo Square, special area at the
1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans
&
Edited December 6, 2013
Night in New Orleans – v4
(editing original version)
Edited December 5, 2013
Night in New Orleans – v3
Edited September 20, 2012
“Night in New Orleans – v2”
Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST
edited December 6, 2001
“Night in New Orleans
mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival,
1993
and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996
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