A dear friend sent this to me partly as a joke, I think, given my affinity for tales about rabbits. I still wonder about that fate of giant white nomadic hare that frequented my yard for a while after I first arrived in Roanoke.
It’s a great piece. Nishino Yoichi is a contemporary artist, but I can’t determine the date of the illustration, or even its title in English.
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
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Owing indeed, my friend. Owing indeed.
The February 2018 Issue of Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine is out, and is available both for purchase and for free in PDF format. If you’d like to read my poem, “This Windy Morning,” you can find it on page 14.
Thank you once again to Editor Sam Rose for allowing me to share my work!
DC Comics.
I just received some very nice news — Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine in the United Kingdom will publish my ghost story poem, “This Windy Morning,” in its February 2018 issue. The issue will be released soon, and I believe that it again will be available in both softcover and PDF format.
“This Windy Morning” was first published by Poetry Pacific in November 2017. I’ll post links when it appears over at Peeking Cat.
I hope that you all are enjoying this sunny but blustery winter weekend.
Etching.
You know how Nietzsche said that “If you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you?”
I went out last night to see the blue moon.
It saw me standing alone.
Without a dream in my heart. Without a love of my own.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 