I am honored today to see my poem “Contagion is a Despot Poet” published by Spillwords Press. You can find it right here.
Thanks, as always, to Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to share my voice at Spillwords Press!
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Winedrunk Sidewalk features “Contagion is a Despot Poet”
I am so pleased to share here that another poem of mine was published today over at Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trumpland — it’s my recent short poem entitled “Contagion is a Despot Poet.”
You can find it right here.
Thanks again, Editor John Grochalski, for allowing me to join the community over at Winedrunk Sidewalk!
“Contagion is a Despot Poet,” by Eric Robert Nolan
Contagion is a despot poet. It
releases fatal verses from its throne.
Its alabaster palm will lean to sow
what words will wind within their binding strictures
each arriving low, in permanent cursive,
at the many nadirs of pages — each
to immutable conclusion,
to shared, indelible metaphor:
dirges upon April mornings
eulogies at afternoon
rimes to loss at rayless night, as stars,
so slowly overflying a singing, dim landscape of endowed poetry,
are indistinct, indifferent.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2020
Photo credit: By Helgi Halldórsson from Reykjavík, Iceland – darkness, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33782100
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