All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

“At our age we know that nothing lasts forever.”

“At our age we know that nothing lasts forever. We fall in love but we know it won’t be forever. That’s why we take risks, that’s why we give ourselves until we are empty.”

—  Alejandra Pizarnik



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Photo credit: Rachel Samanyi from Seattle.WA, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Image from the opening title sequence of “The Outer Limits” (1995-2002)

Showtime, SyFy.

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“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn …”

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I see Christmas trees.

Franklin Road in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Variant cover to “Batman” #130, Jock, 2022

DC Comics.  Foil variant.

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Nolan needs Dairy Queen.

Nolan needs Dairy Queen.

Don’t make fun and don’t be mean.

I really need to make the scene

Near that fabulous shake machine.



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

The times they are a-changin’.

The former Roanoke Times building is now the administration offices for Roanoke City Public Schools.

It feels so weird to me — maybe because the building was one of the first landmarks I remember seeing when I first came to Roanoke.



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“Vampire,” Jaroslav Panuska, 1900

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“Ah, distinctly I remember …”

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Source: The Poe Museum

Intersection of Church Avenue and Market Street, December 2023