Tag Archives: Virginia

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Skies over Salem, VA, December 2023

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A walk up Market Street in Roanoke, VA, Christmastime, 2023.

I almost said “Sorry for the funky music,” but they keep saying “Play that” and I am indeed a white boy.

I actually wanted to remove audio entirely from this video, but I can’t figure out how to do that with Youtube. (Damn it, Jim. I’m a poet, not a video editor.)



Christmas tree at the corner of Market Street and Salem Avenue.

Roanoke, Virginia.

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New-Haircut Nolan sez hello.

I’m kinda like Herman Munster crossed with Conan O’Brien.

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The new building facing Campbell Avenue is coming along nicely.

This video was shot from Salem Avenue to the north.  (Roanoke, Virginia.)



I see Christmas trees.

Franklin Road in Roanoke, Virginia.

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The times they are a-changin’.

The former Roanoke Times building is now the administration offices for Roanoke City Public Schools.

It feels so weird to me — maybe because the building was one of the first landmarks I remember seeing when I first came to Roanoke.



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Intersection of Church Avenue and Market Street, December 2023

The Piker Press publishes “Three Dreamers”

I am so pleased to see a trio of my poems appear today over in the pages of The Piker Press.  The set of three is entitled “Three Dreamers,” and the poems are as follows: “The Writer,” “The Secretary” and “The Bureaucrat.”

You can find them right here.

I wrote “Three Dreamers” very early in my career as a poet, and they were meant as a sort of creative experiment.  I wanted to see whether I could characterize three different fictional characters who have relationships with one another.  (The people portrayed here were imagined as office co-workers.)

Thanks once again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share my voice at The Piker Press!