Josh Simmons quoted Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress …
She Sees What It Sees by Patricia Smith
The eye of Hurricane Katrina passes over New Orleans.
And the levees crackled, and baptism rushed through the ward, blasting the boasts from storefronts, sweeping away the rooted, the untethered, bending doors, withering the strength of stoops. Damn!, like a mantra, drummed and constant comment on the rising drink. Shit! Skirts shamelessly hefted, pants legs ripped away, babies balanced in the air. But still, acceptance, flurries of ha ha I'll be damned, because breakage has always been backdrop and water—well, water sears through them, drenches their white garb and reveals a savior's face. It has provided hard passage, sparkled its trickery and shepherded them to death before.
— Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith (Page 18)
