I’m so pleased today to see The Piker Press feature my poem “Iphigenia’s Womb.” You can find it right here.
Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this great creative community. 🙂
Illustration from “Die Gartenaube,” 1894
Publisher — Ernst Keil’s Nachfolger. Leipzig, Germany.
A sure thing.
I noticed this last night. Ridley Scott is a Cinema God, and I should be cast out for nitpicking his genre-defining masterpiece. (If you need to ask which movie I am talking about, I’m not sure we can be friends.)
But the word nerd in me needs to point out that the computer here probably meant “ensure” instead of “insure.”
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, All!!
Wishing you the luck of the Irish. (And better luck, generally speaking, than this Irishman, because holy shillelagh.)
Photo credit: Saint Patrick Catholic Church (Junction City, Ohio), Nheyob, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Poster for “Blade Runner 2049” (2017)
Warner Bros. Pictures.
“Ode to a Polish Plum Cake,” by Eric Robert Nolan
Infused in crumbling crust
is delectable violent violet –
a pounded plum,
a welt of fruit.
Oh, if my lips could peruse
that square and powdered sugar-bruise.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2024
Photo credit: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf. Now get ready for …
… Falconry on a Balcony.
“The Falconer,” Thomas Couture
“Thisbe,” John William Waterhouse, 1909
Oil on canvas.
Just gonna leaf this here.
My artisty-type friends are posting a lot of paintings depicting spring leaves — my mind keeps going to O. Henry’s “The Last Leaf.” (And of course it takes place in November in New York City.)
You can find it right here at East of the Web, if you’re interested.
And East of the Web, with which I’m only now getting acquainted, seems like a terrific site.
Everyone’s cracking Ides of March jokes. It makes me want to take a stab at it.
And why not? I’m a sharp guy.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 