If you’d care to check out where my photos have been published, you can find all the links at the page above.
I’m no Peter Parker, but still …
“Rain in an Oak Forest,” Ivan Shishkin, 1891
Oil on canvas.
Photo of Algernon Swinburne, 1865
Unknown photographer.
The Stray Branch publishes three of my poems and six of my photos.
I am so grateful to have three poems and six photos published in the Spring/Summer 2026 Issue of The Stray Branch. Despite some challenging circumstances surrounding her family’s health, Editor and Founder Debbie Berk today released the new installment of this outstanding independent literature magazine. (I know I am not alone in admiring Ms. Berk’s extraordinary commitment to the creative community that she established.)
The poems selected were “imagine the moon as companion,” “An Altogether Different Slumber” and “Blue Wolves Move in an Indigo Wood.” The photos were a selection of black-and-white shots that I took throughout Salem and Roanoke, Virginia.
You can purchase a copy of the magazine right here:
The Stray Branch — Spring/Summer 2026
(Where would the buttons even be?)
This morning I unwrapped a microwave pizza and patiently proceeded to place it in the kitchen cabinet to heat up.
Was I just really tired? Or am I old and stupid?
“Alone in the Line,” Montecruz Foto, 2007
Photo credit: Montecruz Foto from Berlin, Alemania, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cover to “Heavy Metal,” Tariq Raheem, November 2004
Metal Mammoth, Inc.
My neighbor surprised me today with a big slab of watermelon; now it’s a midnight snack.
I do love the American south.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 