debris scattered
here and there
an old man playing blues
It is not just the levees that break... the smell breaks away... from the skin when a boy is pulled out of the waters. The waters that come and stand ... still with the bodies of black people, of my people... she says, her voice breaking.
a green doghouse
with FEMA on its roof
lower ninth ward at dusk
Note: The title comes from George W. Bush's comment on Katrina relief work done by Michael DeWayne Brown, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director. My haibun is inspired by Spike Lee's 2006 award-winning documentary, titled When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
In 2010, Spike Lee directed another documentary, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, a follow-up to his 2006 HBO documentary film, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
ReplyDelete'The film looks into the proceeding years since Hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans and Gulf Coast region, and also focuses on the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its effect on the men and women who work along the shores of the gulf. Many of the participants in Levees were also featured in this documentary.' --excerpted from the Wikipedia entry, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise