Untitled 1 by: Lyvia Alvarez, Oil on canvas, 2016.
New Orleans Deadly Enchantment
by: Michelle Marie Chase
Dauphine’s golden trumpets blared for the crowd of drunken fools.
Skilled hands twirled me under twinkling lights on Royal.
Bourbon on our feet, whiskey in our veins.
Midnight we married at La Supreme Court.
Fortunetellers told him to leave me.
He chose to ignore them.
The morning came quietly.
I looked back.
He slept.
Forever.