I have a dear, wise friend whose eyes can turn any of the varying shades of blue that you see in this photo — depending on the day’s light and her day’s fortunes.
Someday we’re going to get to see Norway.
Photo credit: Edmund Schilvold, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
When you’re walking around downtown all alone and paranoid at night and some OTHER paranoid dude by himself gives you the side-eye, and you’re like, “There but for the grace of God go waaaaaaiaminute.”
Well played, universe. Well played.
I’m so happy today to see my poem “school shooter” appear over at the pages of The Spillwords Press. You can find it right here.
Thanks once again to Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to share my voice in this outstanding online literary magazine.
Canto 8.
Roanoke, Virginia. (I was going through some old photos on my hard drive when I found these.)
Lithograph.
This was a present from an old friend from Fredericksburg — a colonial stoneware candleholder. I used to sell these from time to time from the gift shop of The Rising Sun Tavern living history museum there. (Yes, I was indeed one of those character-interpreting tour guides — I was “the tavernkeeper’s son” and I was better at it than you’d guess.)
This thing is really damned neat. I love it. It brings back memories of working summers and weekends as a college student at a job that was a lot more fun than most others.
Lithograph. Part of the Fonds Ancely of the City Library of Toulouse.
I’m truly honored today to hear my poem “Confession” read by host Taize Jones on the Dead Letter Radio podcast! Taize did a pitch perfect job interpreting the piece, as he has with my poems that he selected in the past. You can listen to the episode right here; the poem begins at the 9:05 mark.
Dead Letter Radio is one of the coolest things I’ve found on the net in a long time; I highly recommend that you check it out. It’s also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and over at Listen Notes.
Thanks once again, Taize!
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 