Contagion is a Despot Poet - 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.

Originally published by Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked In Trumpland, May 12, 2020

Eric Robert Nolan’s writing has been featured throughout 55 publications across 10 countries: the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Romania, Turkey, India, Singapore and Australia. His work was also selected for 19 anthologies, two chapbooks and six mini-books. He is a past editor for The Bees Are Dead, and was a nominee for the Sundress Publications 2018 Best of the Net Anthology.