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“Orka na Ukrainie,” Leon Wyczółkowski, 1892

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“Plowing in the Ukraine.”  Oil on canvas.

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“Tonight, Love, Now, Let’s Go”

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Let’s make for Maine
tonight, Love, now, let’s go, let’s just go
north for that ménage à trois —
where water licks us,
where salt air kisses us,
where waves draw warm arms over us,
where rhythmic tide will move, move, move us,
just we intimate three —
you, me and the sea.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2022

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Photo: Leaf on the beach in Ogunquit, Maine.  Captain-tucker, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Please consider donating to CALM to honor Sean L. Macro.

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Please consider donating to a truly worthwhile organization in memory of a sublimely good soul who left us too soon.

The family of Sean L. Macro has organized a donation page for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) in the United Kingdom. It looks like a wonderful charity dedicated to suicide prevention. Sean was the kind of young man who would be the first to support someone else — I can’t think of a better way to honor him.

You can make a contribution right here:

CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)

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“Crystal Ball,” John William Waterhouse

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Oil on canvas.

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You know it’s a great April Fool’s day when you successfully persuade someone there’s a bear in your home.

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Life is good, and I AM A COMPLETE BASTARD.

I also got a few friends with a story about Gerard Butler shooting a movie in downtown Roanoke. (Though plenty of people clued to the gag pretty quickly too.)

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“Voluptas Mors,” Philippe Halsman, 1951

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The man portrayed is artist Salvador Dali.

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“Hardy Orchids Haiku”

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In estranged gardens
are nourished hardy orchids —
cold opal blossoms.

— Eric Robert Nolan

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Photo credit:  By Vassil – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1745866

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Advertisement for Cognac Bisquit, by Alfons Mucha, 1899

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The corona makes me ornery!

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I AM YOUR SOUR GRAMPA.

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Buk 100 Volume 3 is a go!

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I got some more good news today as well — Newington Blue Press has returned after a hiatus, and will release the third volume of Buk 100, its commemorative chapbook series honoring Charles Bukowski!   It will include a new flash fiction story of mine, entitled “Bill and I.”

I’ll post details and ordering information when they become available.

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