First Smoke
The day’s first smoke
Is so much more
Than another nice carcinogenic nip.
It’s coffee’s closest compatriot.
All that needed nicotine
Rushes the blood stream at once.
The high heart flutters like
A sparrow in pursuit.
Sweet nicotine
Stimulates the cortex.
The lungs are infused with the faux
Sense of wellbeing.
I can beat away the day’s frustrations
With a little white stick.
© Eric Robert Nolan 2013
Seagull
Like an awkward emperor,
you sit alone atop
the rooftop of my urbane neighbors.
Squat and fat and white, you’re
a satisfied and unenlightened despot.
Edicts issue out
From your discordant “caw!”
What do those yuppies think of you?
Your mien makes
Their rich art-deco house
A commonplace kingdom.
Your ungainly gait makes
a prosaic palace of their home.
Cardinals arcing over
are airborne scarlet darts.
Pairs of swallows will sometimes
loop in symmetry.
You’ll have none of it. You’re
All utilitarian flight
And graceless landings.
If you were human
you’d be a pot-bellied plumber, perhaps
in a wife-beater t-shirt
holding a beer.
Other birds will swoop and dive.
Other birds will sing.
But your cawing only exhorts us,
“Hail to The King.”
© Eric Robert Nolan 2013
Dyslexic Dad Haiku
When one twin mouths off
Do angry dyslexic Dads
Slap the wrong sibling?
© Eric Robert Nolan 2013
BIO:
Eric Robert Nolan graduated
from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in
Psychology. As an investigative journalist, his work has appeared on
the front pages of The Culpeper Star-Exponent, The Free Lance – Star and
The Daily Progress in the Virginia. Eric’s poetry and short stories
have been published by Dagda Publishing, Illumen, Every Day Poets, Every
Day Fiction, Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dead Snakes, The Bright Light
Café, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere.
His first novel, a horror- science fiction story entitled “The Dogs
Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More,” will be published by Dagda Publishing
on November 19th.
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