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The Galway Review features “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks”

I’m honored today to see The Galway Review publish another poem of mine — this time “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks.” 

The Galway Review is the city’s leading literary magazine, and a wonderful cultural resource for Ireland and the world.  As always, I am grateful to the journal’s editorial staff for allowing my work to appear in such a distinguished periodical.

AMC Theaters in Crystal Spring, Virginia

“Italian Girl,” Léon Bonnat, circa 1865

Oil on canvas.

A Barnes & Noble in Crystal Spring, Virginia

I didn’t even think a lot of large brick-and-mortar bookstores like this were still around any more.



Spanish Poster for “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)

New Line Cinema.

A “The Last of Us” portmanteau.

Fungal + zombies = Funzies.

(Have a blast, kids.)



“The Duke” From “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, circa 1649

Spring in Crystal Spring.

Roanoke, Virginia, April 2025.  Pictured is the First Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

No, I can not hold a phone or camera steady.  It will never happen.

“The Duchess” From “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, circa 1649