I’m honored to report here today that another of my poems was featured by Dead Snakes.
Click here to read “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks.”
Once again, thank you to Editor Stephen Jarrell Williams!
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“Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks,” by Eric Robert Nolan
“Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks”
by Eric Robert Nolan
[For Robert and Kathleen Nolan]
Oh, to extinguish the seas,
and make the waves recede.
The nights between you both and me
are oceans that separate.
To meet at a nadir
between continents,
to traverse
dryness in endless leagues,
to descend
the fathoms now made shining canyons,
where all the former depths are rendered
newly whitening plains,
I would find you
smiling among inert shipwrecks.
All their rusting hulls would be
as iron strange oases,
now in an ironic desert —
the seabed under midday.
A warm new noon alights their wakes.
Intermittent citadels
of masts again in sun
would brightly tower over
their resurrected figureheads;
their mermaids’ opaque eyes would find
we three gladdened
among the once benighted bows.
There’d be an incongruity
between crustaceans now
slowed almost to stillness
in the blanching sun, while we …
we rushed to an embrace.
Our shouts would break
the silence of epochs.
Somewhere on a shore, this night,
beached upon an altar
of lunar-like nocturnal sands,
finally, face to face,
dessicated starfish
stare at their namesakes in heaven.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2016
Publication Notice: Dead Snakes and UFO Gigolo feature two poems
I just received some nice news — two of my poems were featured today at both Dead Snakes and UFO Gigolo. The first is entitled “June, Washington, 1998,” and was first published by Dead Beats Literary blog in 2012. The second is a short, humorous poem entitled “Crow’s Feet,” and appeared on this blog last week.
You can find the poems here at Dead Snakes, and here at UFO Gigolo.
As in the past, I am quite grateful to Stephen Jarrell Williams, Editor for both Dead Snakes and UFO Gigolo!
Photo credit: Qwerty0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
“Crow’s Feet,” by Eric Robert Nolan
Crow’s feet arise
Beside my eyes.
There’s no bird ruder
Than age’s raven.
Marched and marked nocturnally
All across my face, did he.
Is “goose-stepping blackbird”
A contradiction in terms?
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2016
Publication Notice: “Delaware Sheets” is featured at both Dead Snakes and UFO Gigolo
I am honored to share here that one of my poems, “Delaware Sheets,” was published today by both Dead Snakes and UFO Gigolo.
To read it over at Dead Snakes, click here: Delaware Sheets. To find it at UFO Gigolo, follow this link: Delaware Sheets.
This poem was first featured by Every Day Poets in 2013.
Photo credit: By John Dalrymple (originally posted to Flickr as Green Fields) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
“December” appears at Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine
The May 2016 issue of Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine was released today; my poem, “December,” appears on page 19.
If you would like to purchase a paperback copy of the magazine, please click here:
If you would like to download a free pdf copy of the May issue, please click here:
Publication Notice: Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine to feature “December”
I just got some very nice news — Samantha Rose over at Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine just told me that my poem, “December,” will be featured in the next issue. “December” was first published by Dagda in 2013.
It’s always an honor to be included within a terrific creative community like Peeking Cat. Thanks, Sam!
Publication notice: Dead Snakes features “A Muted Iris” and “Amanda II: A Haiku”
I’m honored to report that two more of my poems were published today by Dead Snakes. They are “A Muted Iris” and “Amanda II: A Haiku.” You can find them here:
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2016/05/eric-robert-nolan-two-poems_8.html
“A Muted Iris” was first published by Dagda Publishing in October 2014; the haiku was most recently published last year by Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine. (It follows “Amanda,” which was featured by both Dead Snakes and Peeking Cat.)
Thanks once again to Editor Stephen Jarrell Williams at Dead Snakes!
Photo credit: By Kylir Horton from Eagle Mountain, Utah, United States (Backbone) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
Publication notice: Dead Snakes features two poems
I’m honored to share that two poems of mine were featured today over at Dead Snakes.
The first is entitled “Blue Wolves Move In An Indigo Wood.” The second is a short humorous poem that I wrote at the Metro stop at the Pentagon, and is entitled “Hot Cop.”
Thanks once again to Editor Stephen Jarrell Williams over at Dead Snakes!
To view both poems, click here:
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2016/05/eric-robert-nolan-two-poems.html
Publication notice: Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine features “March Midnight Window”
I’m honored here to report that Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine has again elected to publish a poem of mine. Today’s newly released April 2016 issue features “March Midnight Window” on page 17.
This piece originally appeared last year over at Dead Snakes.
I’d like to thank Editor Samantha Rose for this opportunity to see my work appear alongside that of so many talented people.
If you’d like to purchase a paperback copy of the April issue, you can do so over at Lulu.com:
Or, if you would like to download it in pdf format for free, just click here:
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 