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The cool people at Spillwords Press published my “Weeping Willow Haiku.”

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You can find it right here.  🙂

Thanks, as always, to Chief Editor Dagmara K and the rest of the staff at Spillwords Press!

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Gold Memento Mori Pendant, 18th Century

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L0035565 A gold memento mori pendant
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
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A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
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18th Century Published: –
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“Widening Circles,” Ranier Maria Rilke

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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

“Ingeborg,” Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1868

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The Galway Review 14 anthology was released yesterday with my love poem, “Where Would We Go?”

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I’m honored to be one of 17 poets worldwide whose work was selected for The Galway Review 14, the latest annual anthology from The Galway Review in the Republic of Ireland.  My love poem “Where Would We Go?” appears on Page 60; it was first first published online by the journal a month ago.

You can order a copy by contacting The Galway Review directly at thegalwayreview@gmail.com.

This is the second time that my work has appeared in one of the journal’s yearly anthologies.  Thanks once again to Managing Editor Ndrek Gjini and the rest of the leadership and staff of this distinguished publication.

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“Landscape With Old Oil Truck,” Jaime Prosser, 2008

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Image credit: JAIME PROSSER, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

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Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And, in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

—  William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2”

The Crown of Simon Bolivar.  Image credit: Anfecaro, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mary Washington College friends are the best.

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My alumbud Rick Slagle: “My Mary Washington friend has been published again and I am enjoying my 2nd Eric Nolan book!”

Thanks, man!

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Variant cover to “Batman: One Bad Day,” Jim Lee, 2022

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DC Comics.

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I swear I am not making this up.

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Irony is when you exit the dry cleaner and a HUGE flock of birds IMMEDIATELY takes flight and poop-bombs you like you were Dresden — which could NECESSITATE A SUBSEQUENT DRY CLEANING.  (I actually do need to throw my jacket in the washer now.)

This is collusion.  That lady feeds the birds with a portion of her profits.  I’ll bet there are rows of feeders on the roof.

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