Art: Nebula by Robert Ferrier

THICH

 

THICH was on top of 3240 W. Lawrence, 
above where the granite says
DAVID FIREPROOF STORAGE WAREHOUSE 1916,
which is above where the awning says
L&L APPLIANCE MART.
This is between Kedzie and Sawyer,
across from TACO MONTANA
and GREAT SEA LOLLIPOP WINGS.
THICH was in pale green letters,
skinny tall letters, on a background rollered black.
THICH faced west with a commanding view of Albany park.
But someone got up there with stencils and paint,
just as spring was coming in this year,
and changed the tag to THICK.

 

 

 

In the author’s words:

Benjamin Goluboff teaches at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Ho Chi Minh: A Speculative Life in Verse and Biking Englewood: An Essay on the White Gaze, both from Urban Farmhouse Press. Some of his work can be read at Benjamin Goluboff

 

About the artist:

Robert Ferrier is a retired university research administrator living in Norman. He received a BA in Journalism and an MBA from the University of Oklahoma. He has published two novels at Amazon Kindle ebooks. His photo, “Magnolia Morning,” was the cover of the Summer, 2016, Dragon Poet Review. His photo, “Sunflower,” was the cover of the Summer, 2017, Dragon Poet Review. “Diagnosis in Stasis,” was the cover of the Fall, 2012, Blood and Thunder, OU College of Medicine. His poems have appeared in, Dragon Poet Review, Red River Review, Oklahoma Today, Blood & Thunder, Crosstimbers, Westview, Mid-America Poetry Review, The Exhibitionist and Walt’s Corner of the Long Islander. In 2007 the Norman Galaxy of Writers nominated him for Poet Laureate of Oklahoma. His influences in poetry have been shaped by poets who write clear, passionate verse: Howard Nemerov, Billy Collins, Pablo Neruda, Ted Kooser, Elizabeth Bishop, Ruth Stone, and Seamus Heaney. In photography, he has developed increasing interest in abstracts.

 

 

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