"What Was is Gone" Shelby

What Was is Gone Shelby, Being a New Orleanian and going through Hurricane Katrina, I knew within the first 4 lines that you were referring to Hurricane Katrina. I really enjoyed this piece and I like how you took some creative concepts from Voskuil’s piece by going in reverse chronological order. I like how you referred to Hurricane Katrina without saying ‘hurricane’ or ‘Katrina’—you described an entire experience that someone probably went through without saying what it was that the characters actually were enduring. I like how you situate the dialogue in this piece as well—I like that as the character Al is on the phone with his wife, we know what she is saying to him/how she’s responding to him by the way in which he is responding to her. I really have nothing to critique about this piece, I liked it a lot and I think it shows how everyone in New Orleans may have experienced Hurricane Katrina at the same time, but it ‘hit’ people in different ways.