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Poetry From the Water's Edge
Written by Mitchell Parfait — from Dulac, Louisiana, where the shrimp boats still run and the Gulf still speaks
★★★★★ Available on Amazon
Who Is Mitchell Parfait?
Mitchell Parfait was born and raised in Dulac, Louisiana — deep in the bayou country of the Gulf South. He is a poet, a recording artist, and a man shaped by the water. His family worked the shrimp boats and the oilfield. His roots run Choctaw and Cajun.
He writes from a place most poets never see — the trawler deck at 4am, the marsh at low tide, the dock where the men who built this country never get written about. DULAC POETRY is not a professor's book. It is a man's truth, told from the water's edge.
MITCHELL PARFAIT · DULAC, LOUISIANA
Born From the Water. Rooted in the Land.
Three generations of shrimpers. Choctaw blood. The trawler, the bayou, the Gulf. Mitchell Parfait's poetry doesn't come from a desk — it comes from a life spent working the water in Dulac, Louisiana.
About the Book
Words Born From the Bayou
Dulac Poetry is a debut collection from Louisiana poet Mitchell Parfait — 45 pages of verse drawn from a life spent on the water. Fisherman, seaman, and craftsman, Mitchell writes from the ground up: from the muddy banks of the bayou, from the open Gulf, from long nights at sea and quiet mornings at home.
The poems range across love and heartache, faith and doubt, the passing of time, and the deep pull of the ocean. Standout poems like “Love Hurts” and “Pray” speak with raw honesty about what it means to hold on — to the people you love and to the God who carries you when you can't carry yourself.
“A collection for anyone who has ever felt the weight of love, the comfort of faith, or the pull of a tide they couldn't resist.”
Mitchell Parfait
Born from the Water,
Rooted in the Land
Mitchell Parfait grew up in Dulac, Louisiana — a small community at the end of the road, where the bayou opens into the Gulf. His family has worked these waters for generations: shrimping, crabbing, fishing, pulling oysters from the beds.
But Mitchell carries another heritage too. His Choctaw roots run as deep as the bayou itself — a people who knew this land long before the levees, the oil rigs, and the trawlers. The crest he carries bears the animals of the water and the tools of his ancestors. It is not decoration. It is identity.
DULAC POETRY is where those two worlds meet — the working Gulf Coast life and the ancient heritage of a people who called this place home. It's poetry written from the inside.
A taste of Dulac Poetry
From the collection
From the Water
The bayou knows my name by now,
it called me long before I knew to answer.
God put the salt in me the same day He made the sea —
some men are made for land, and some for the water.
— Mitchell Parfait, Dulac Poetry
About the Author
Mitchell Parfait
Mitchell Parfait was born and raised along the Louisiana coast — in the small fishing community of Dulac, where the land meets the Gulf of Mexico in a tangle of marsh and saltwater. He has spent his life working on the water as a fisherman, seaman, and craftsman.
Poetry came to Mitchell the way the tide comes in: slowly, then all at once. He writes about what he knows — the weight of nets at dawn, the silence between a man and his God on an open sea, the way love can fill you and break you at the same time. His verses are plain-spoken and true, shaped by years of living, not just observing.
Dulac Poetry is his debut collection. It is dedicated to the people of the Louisiana coast and to everyone who has ever looked out at the water and found themselves there.
Reader Reviews
What Readers Are Saying
“I read 'Love Hurts' three times in a row. It captured something I've felt my whole life but never had the words for. This book is a gift.”
Renee B.
Baton Rouge, LA
“Mitchell writes like the water itself is speaking. 'Pray' moved me to tears. I bought a second copy to send to my father.”
James T.
New Orleans, LA
“There's an honesty in these poems that you rarely find anymore. You can feel the bayou in every line. Beautiful work.”
Carol F.
Houma, LA
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