Complete strangers will give you huge smile and a fist bump and say, “Keep on rockin’, Baby.”
I swear to you, New York is not like this.
I indeed WILL keep on rockin’, Sir. Thank you.
Cover to “Robin II” #1, Kevin Maguire & Dick Giordano, 1991
DC Comics.
Poster for “Reservoir Dogs” (1992)
Miramax.
Chandelier e-zine publishes “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves”
I’m so happy to tell you here that my poem “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves” was published today in Chandelier e-zine.
Chandelier is a superb online magazine published twice a year by Bulb Culture Collective. It features previously published writing that reflects each issue’s theme; the Summer 2025 issue’s theme is Blazing.
I am grateful to Editors L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda for deciding that my poem, with its various depictions of burning, was a good fit.
Like a great storyteller once wrote, “It was a pleasure to burn.” 🙂
Photo of an abandoned house in Poland by Kamil Czaiński, 2021
Stare Chałupki district.
“She looked over his shoulder/ For vines and olive trees …”
She looked over his shoulder
For vines and olive trees,
Marble well-governed cities
And ships upon untamed seas,
But there on the shining metal
His hands had put instead
An artificial wilderness
And a sky like lead.
— opening lines from W. H. Auden’s “the Shield of Achilles”
Photo of Manhattan by Métneki János, 1968
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 