The Galway Review features “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks”

I’m honored today to see The Galway Review publish another poem of mine — this time “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks.” 

The Galway Review is the city’s leading literary magazine, and a wonderful cultural resource for Ireland and the world.  As always, I am grateful to the journal’s editorial staff for allowing my work to appear in such a distinguished periodical.

AMC Theaters in Crystal Spring, Virginia

“Italian Girl,” Léon Bonnat, circa 1865

Oil on canvas.

A Barnes & Noble in Crystal Spring, Virginia

I didn’t even think a lot of large brick-and-mortar bookstores like this were still around any more.



Spanish Poster for “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)

New Line Cinema.

A “The Last of Us” portmanteau.

Fungal + zombies = Funzies.

(Have a blast, kids.)



“The Duke” From “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, circa 1649

Spring in Crystal Spring.

Roanoke, Virginia, April 2025.  Pictured is the First Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

No, I can not hold a phone or camera steady.  It will never happen.

“The Duchess” From “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, circa 1649

“You can’t change the world, but you can change the facts.”

You can’t change the world,
But you can change the facts.
And when you change the facts,
You change points of view.
If you change points of view,
You may change a vote.
And when you change a vote,
You may change the world.

— from Depeche Mode’s “New Dress,” 1986



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