"When any calamity has been suffered..."

                                    victim of rising water on the Atchafalaya river?


went to the levee and drove south
this morning...
past bayou Sorrel
past bayou Pigeon
and observed high water everywhere
on the bayous
in the roads
inside some of the houses
not much has changed
most of the cows were happily munching
grass high on the lush levee
this bull was ....
a little bull headed I suppose
but a rescue was not needed
it was the gnats that were the real problem.

"When any calamity has been suffered,
the first thing to be remembered is how
 much has been escaped."  Samuel Johnson

Harry Partch