Please join me in congratulating her for seeing her poem “Finally” appear over at Spillwords Press!!
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(But it’s probably a mooooot point.)
When you take a loooooooong Saturday nap and then wake up groggy, apple fritters kinda look like calf brains.
I’m just sayin’.
“Bohemian Catastrophe.”
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Lost by a landside,
So I’ll destroy democracy.
Open your eyes,
Watch the hearings and see,
I’m just a despot, deserving no sympathy,
Cause’s power’s easy come, easy go,
My IQ’s little low,
And way the wind blows doesn’t bode too well for me,
for me …
“The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Toward Infinity.” Odilon Redon, 1882
Lithograph.
“NSA teleporter, catastrophic malfunction.”
These are always fun.
Newly vacant lot between Campbell and Salem Avenues, Roanoke, VA, July 2022
This is after the buildings facing Campbell Avenue (including the former Campbell Court bus station) were razed. The latter two shots were taken from Salem Avenue, looking south.
“Raze” is a weird word. Its antonym is also its homophone (“raise”).
“The Cook” from “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, 17th Century
Lavender Outside Virginian Station, Roanoke, VA
Cover to Nolan Miller’s “Why I Am So Beat,” Cover Art by Bernard Barton, 1954
Ace Books.
Intersection of Salem Avenue with Second Avenue, Roanoke, VA, July 2022
(Before Second Avenue becomes Gainsboro Road heading north at the overpass.)
I can’t emphasize enough what a quiet city this is. What you see is what passes for a somewhat busy Tuesday morning.
