Have fun, be safe, don’t drink and drive, and don’t accept election help from foreign adversaries.
By Anita Mishra – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41619517
I knew this pun was bad, but I went Fourth with it anyway.
A college friend actually invited me to the Fourth of July festivities in Washington tomorrow.
But I said no tanks.
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
— Ray Bradbury
Cover to “The Ladies’ Home Journal,” October 1858
LHJ Publishing.
“hens staring upward” selected for “The Flickering Light” poetry collection
I’m quite happy to share here that my poem “hens staring upward” was selected by Down in the Dirt magazine for its latest poetry collection, The Flickering Light. I was honored to have this poem originally published by Down in the Dirt in its April issue; seeing it subsequently selected for The Flickering Light today was a nice surprise!
If you’d like to order a copy of the anthology, you can find it right here over at Amazon.
Thank you, Editor Janet Kuypers, for allowing me to join the creative community of Down in the Dirt!
“Fawning Haiku,” by Eric Robert Nolan
We fawn over fawns
until their clipping gallop
cadences away.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2019
Photo credit: By Mwanner at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=245464
“Die Ährenleserinnen,” Eugene Burnand, late 19th Century
“Nihilist Night Haiku,” by Eric Robert Nolan
This nihilist night,
the sky is only void and
burning tombstone stars.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2019
Photo credit: Egres73 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D
Cover to “Ghost” #1, Dave Dorman, 1993
Dark Horse Comics.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay,” by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 