Appearing at the State of the Nation Festival in New Orleans, 5pm Friday, March 20, 2009, a work-in-progress presentation of Sand Reckoning.
Sand Reckoning is a prose poem, spoken and sung, a saga of people and rivers, canals and bridges, levees and outlets, nitrogen, tailings, and coliform spume… a litany of modern “improvements” upon the oldest relationship in the civilized world. It’s a story of the infra-structurists, the genius architects of that vast inflexible network of transportation and commerce, who bent the natural features of the land to the service of unimaginable wealth and national power. Stumbling into the 21st century on the back of this rusted behemoth, Sand Reckoning asks whether we are reconciled to follow in the well-trodden path of least-resistance, or will we forge anew?
NIGHTJAR APOTHECARY 