An Ode to the Paintings of a Newly Discovered Artist
written by: Eric Robert Nolan
In smoke-tones
as only oldest memories will slow their burns to smolder,
her visions sift
as softly as ash,
breeze-blown and balmy,
will filter forward noiselessly in palling ebon fingers:
the dim ellipses of faces, our silhouetted lost,
their bewitching figures now remembrances unlit, all
ordered under odor of the flare.
Silently out of the late-day hearth,
the spent fire’s sigil on the floor
angles out of chance into her portraitures of soot.
Eric Robert Nolan’s writing has appeared throughout over 50 publications in 10 countries: the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Romania, Turkey, India, Singapore and Australia. These include Newsday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Roanoke Times, The Free Lance-Star, The Daily Progress, the Eunoia Review, The Galway Review, Every Day Fiction and Quail Bell Magazine. His work was also selected for 18 anthologies, two chapbooks and six mini-books. He was one of only eight poets worldwide selected for The Galway Review 12, the esteemed Irish journal’s 2024 poetry anthology. He was nominated for the Sundress Publications 2018 Best of the Net Anthology, and for Spillwords Press Awards in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. He is a past editor for the dystopian literature journal, The Bees Are Dead. He was entered in 2022 into the national Poets & Writers Directory.
Latest posts by Eric Robert Nolan (see all)
- Ode to a Polish Plum Cake - November 15, 2024
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