I am feeling thankful this Memorial Day to brave souls who gave their lives so that mine could be free.
Memorial Day 2025
“Decoration Day,” 1906
From “Little Snow White and Other Stories.” A. L. Burt Company.
“The Bower.”
New apartment building between Salem and Campbell Avenues, Roanoke, Virginia, May 2025.
It’s hard to believe the old bus station used to be here.
*Depeche Mode.*
And Hinds and Buzzy Lee and Paul Russell, more recently. I’d name Ethel Cain, but her stuff typically isn’t stuff you can dance to.
The funny thing is that I myself dance exactly like the girl pictured.
Variant cover to “Adventure Comics Special Featuring Guardian,” Victor Ibáñez, 2009
DC Comics.
“Live the questions now.”
“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 1929
Source: English Literature info on Facebook
“Rilke in Moscow,” Leonid Pasternak, 1928
Cover to “Justice” #5, Alex Ross, 2006
DC Comics. Third printing.
The Creativity Webzine features “Roanoke Summer Midnight”
I am thrilled tonight to see The Creativity Webzine in Germany publish my poem “Roanoke Summer Midnight.”
The theme of the May issue is “History,” and my poem is meant as an homage to the spiritual, natural and architectural history of my adopted home, rural Southwest Virginia. You can find it at the link below:
The Arts Section of The Creativity Webzine
Thanks to Editor-in-Chief Charles E. J. Moulton for allowing me to see my work showcased within this wonderful creative community.
Variant Cover to “Batman” #125, Alex Ross, 2022
DC Comics.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 