Another Victim of Global Warming

Will some future storm be the vehicle

Of the Gulf's liquified penetration,

And New Orleans suffer the fate

Of titanic and swift inundation?

Might Mardi Gras fade into memory

And carnival flourish no more;

While new marine denizens frolic,

And aquatic, finned creatures soar?

One envisions Neptune trailing banners

Of seaweed festooned with pale lights

Of luminescent and tiny sea creatures

(the souls of long gone water sprites?).

Storefronts will grow green with algae

As barnacles sprout on their walls.

Bright-colored fishes will gather in schools

To explore water-logged shopping malls.

Multi-tentacled, ink-spewing octupi

Might pass like cops strolling their beat:

Some people may say "not much has changed."

There'll still be sharks on Bourbon Street.

The Web Projects of Sondra Ball and Mario Cavallini