Suppose you had a colonoscopy completed, but someone burglarized your doctor’s office and stole all the imagery.
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I’ve been nominated for June 2024 Author of the Month at Spillwords Press.
Hey, gang. I’ve been nominated by the community over at Spillwords Press for June 2024 Author of the Month. 🙂 This follows their publication of my poem “The Writer” on June 15.
If you would care to vote for me, it’s easy to do so — you can vote right here from today through Saturday.
Please note that you would have to be a member of the Spillwords Press community. But registration is quick and easy at this link.
Thanks so much to anyone who had a hand in nominating me; I really am grateful to be recognized this way.
Poetry Hall translates two of my poems into Chinese for its worldwide readership.
I’ve been extended a really nice and unusual honor — Poetry Hall translated two of my poems into Chinese for its worldwide population of readers.
The two poems are “Quiet White Dog Short Poem” and “March Midnight Window;” they appeared in Issue 24 of Poetry Hall, released today. The bilingual journal has a truly interesting format — it prints each poem in both English and Chinese, side by side. You can purchase Issue 24 right here on Amazon.
Poetry Hall is a Chicago-based publisher and is a project of the Chinese Poetry Association. I’m grateful to Managing Editor Kai Mills for allowing me to see my work appear in such a distinguished global publication.
The Hancock Building on 1st Street in Roanoke has what looks like an art deco facade.
I guess I never noticed how cool it looked until I stopped and really looked at it.
Happy Father’s Day, Dad; Happy Birthday, Mom.
They were both lovers of stories and poems too.
No, I am not the baby pictured — that was my cousin Kevin.
The Piker Press features my review of Alex Garland’s “Civil War” (2024)
Hey, gang — I got my first movie review published! Thanks so much to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski at The Piker Press for letting me share my take on Alex Garland’s “Civil War” (2024).
“Release Me — The Original Love Mix,” by ScorpioStatic!
Just another kickass techno track from one of my greatest friends from my college days — ScorpioStatic! (His secret identity is Jason Buckland.)
The Piker Press publishes “Blue.”
The Piker Press featured my short poem “Blue” today; you can find it right here at the link.
As always, thanks to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for selecting my work! 🙂
“Like White Plumeria Petal,” by Eric Robert Nolan
Your face will occasion the spaces
wherever I delay – prosaic places:
the sofa, the hall, the breakfast table
when slow new sun ascends in palette
of light against dark, you are with me,
observing the glowing morning,
sipping and smiling over coffee.
You, My Love, are always near,
for you are ever in reverie here.
Your arrival surprises me
at market among the rows
of pears and bright strawberries,
crates of crimson radiance,
and the hard and fragrant weights of apples,
their round and reddening-ember
emblems of autumn in bins.
You offer to buy some for me.
The curve of your hand falls over one
like white plumeria petal.
Unpredicted you appear,
For you are ever in reverie here.
When I pause at the park’s entrance,
piqued by inscrutable sculpture there,
you are on my arm again,
curious also at its
strange silver spades and towering contour,
the upward angled language of it,
its high iron hieroglyph.
You draw me close and joke
of Freud in girlish murmurs, your
quickened persistence of whimsy.
Your drollery will still adhere
For you are ever in reverie here.
Ever lovely, ever dear,
are ruminations I revere;
senses of you persevere,
for you are ever in reverie here.
© Eric Robert Nolan 2024
Photo credit: Ashley Campbell, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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