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Routh Cemetery
North of where I live is a patch of thick creek-bottom woods known as the Spring Creek Nature Area. I’ve been going there for years – to walk around or ride my bike on the complex of paved trails that...
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Cities of the Dead
New Orleans Cemetery – Saint Louis #1 On our last trip to the Big Easy, we signed up for a New Orleans Cemetery tour from Tulane University. The Cemeteries of New Orleans are famous – when you visit...
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Lizard of Death
I am the lizard king. I can do anything. —- Jim Morrison Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans “At noon in the desert a panting lizard waited for history, its elbows tense, watching the curve of a...
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Ferns
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have...
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Marie Laveau – The Voodoo Queen
“There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it—that part of our soul that is irreparably damaged by the very trials and tribulations of life. We are...
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The Stone Weeps
Lafayette Cemetery No.1 New Orleans, Louisiana New OrleansLafayette Cemetery No. 1
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Let’s Talk of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs
“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let’s choose executors and talk of wills” ― William Shakespeare, Richard...
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