Oil on canvas.
I’m Dunn here.
NAILED IT.
Update — you people just know that when I realized I needed a raincoat, I went looking specifically for the “Unbreakable” look. I don’t do cosplay, but if regular clothes can match a character? I’m there. You should have seen me shopping for suits in the heyday of “The X-Files.”
Update 2 — A Longwood High School pal just told me I look like the Gorton’s Fisherman. Hey, at least you know you can trust me.
“The Piker Press” features my poem “When I Meet the Devil”
I’m so glad today to see The Piker Press publish another poem of mine — “When I Meet the Devil.” You can find it right here.
Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share my voice at The Piker Press!
“La Penseur,” Auguste Rodin
“The Thinker.” Musée Rodin, Paris.
“Go forth, under the open sky, and list/ To Nature’s teachings …”
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images
Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart;—
Go forth, under the open sky, and list
To Nature’s teachings …
— from William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”
“Kindred Spirits,” Asher Durand, 1849, depicting William Cullen Bryant with Thomas Cole
Cover to “Batman/Grendel: Devil’s Riddle,” Matt Wagner, 1993
DC Comics, Comico.
“White Peonies,” Augusto Giacometti
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 