Inner Woman Volume 2

Secluded in the swamp

New Orleans a distant

jazz romp

Between curtains

of Spanish moss

under mountains

of rotted logs

Stands a skeleton

white between sapling

tupelo and cypress

Alligators worship at

the stone altar

of the Voodoo Queen’s lair

serving horror as its fare

Bones litter the algae slime

hiding shards of stained glass

demise

And the Devil and God

Agree

Those who suffer here

shall never be free