Afterall, you’re our rock, on which we’ve built this family.

And rocks don’t cry.
So I’ll cry for you.

i liked the ending. powerful and clean format. powerful! great job =)

I wanted to say I liked this piece very well and I honestly think you should always write. I can relate a bit. Although, I was not involved with Rita - I was in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and survived in the midst of it all. I will check out more of your writings at a later date.

P.S. I am the author of "La Rose Noire" and I know it has been forever and a day(!) , but I *will* update - hopefully by the end of next week. I have to get in the groove again. And my life has been tremendously busy these last couple years, but since I am in 'exile' after the storm, I have a bit of time before my next semester starts.

Take Care. All the best, Janine

I am glad you write well, which is rather self serving, but I'm still glad you do anyway. Your journalistic essay poem form is very easy to read, your images are crafted with skill and insight, nothing cryptic or self-consciously clever, your phrases are solid and evocative, each subsequent line is exactly where the reader needs to be,beautifully done and a real account, writing of value.thanks again, no one has ever read my work so thoroughly and diligently, it is a surprise but not unpleasant. like the play on D H Lawrence.

tell you what, I visited Texas for the first time last summer, I went with all of my prejudices. This fall the friends I stayed with sent me some photos so I sent them back a poem, I will post it in fictionpressland later today, but its not so good so when you are done reading it I will remove it. DC

Since this was posted over a month ago, I realize that I'm reviewing a little late, but I just wanted you to know that you conveyed every emotion that I felt during the hurricane perfectly. I live about 30 minutes from Beaumont (closer to the coast) and during our evacuation and while we were waiting out the storm, I thought I was going to go crazy, sitting around with 10 members of my family, waiting to see if I was going to have a home to go back to (we got lucky, no damage). I just wanted to tell you that it's nice to know that somebody else kinda went through the same thing (and that you had that one person who kept smiling for you). Amazing.

I liked that.

That is all.