My poem, Fairly Tale, will appear in April Fools’. Here is the Video Preview for April Fools’.
Isn’t the cover great?!
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Fairly Tale…..
Dreams of Mr. Rabbit was based on something real – but isn’t all poetry? I’ve been in contact with the man who inspired that poem – he asked me to read it to him. He said hearing me read it, hearing my voice recite those words, helped him understand something that he’d never understood before.
Fairly Tale – which will be published next month – is similar in theme, but about a completely different experience and man.
For many of us, fairy tales are our first introduction to literature, our fist introduction to love; therefore, subverting these themes, bending them out of shape to fit the world we live in and the experiences we live through seems to come quite naturally.
Endings are good and bad. Most of the time, even the bad endings are for the best.
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You break into a thousand angels
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My poem, Fairly Tale, will be published in April Fools next month – No kidding!
photo by Nicholas Valentin
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Dreams…..
Is Mike a Ghost? The Supernatural in West End
I was asked, recently, if Mike, the character from West End who disappeared as a teenager and reappeared to the narrator was a ghost.
According to Dr. McAndrew, in the article “Why Some People See Ghosts and Other Presences,” people may see spirits when they “have become isolated in an extreme or unusual environment, often when high levels of stress are involved. These individuals report a perception or feeling that another person is there to help them cope…”
The main character in West End is isolated and in an unusual environment when Mike arrives. She’s not certain she saw him with the soldiers, just that there were soldiers and she never looks at faces, so she states.
McAndrew further states: “The loneliness and isolation, coupled with high levels of stress and unchanging sensory stimulation, might very well produce the same biological conditions that could trigger a “visit” from the recently departed.”
The narrator in West End claims to find comfort in this non-existence she has found. She left home because of the stress which she was unable to handle; she is now surrounded by, so it seems, an unchanging environment without stimulation. Then, suddenly, Mike is there.
What do you think – is Mike a ghost?
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Dreams of Mr. Rabbit
My Poem, title above, will appear in Leprechauns and Love to be released in March!
Painting the roses, I still think
of you……..
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Apro-Poe
Happy Birthday, Mr. Poe!
To one of the first, authentically American literary voices. Inspiration, then and now, for artists, writers, creators.
Maybe I should have dedicated my book to him – posthumously – that is.
But I think it is some sort of fancy coincidence, fate, luck, whatever you want to call it – that my book, West End, has been released on this, his 207th Birthday.
West End has been “officially” released. I’m told it won’t be in bookstores – online or in person – for 3-5 days. OH THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART (yes, I think Tom Petty liked Poe too!)
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A Sneak Peek from _West End_
As a child, I watched a squirrel crawl along an electrical line, elegant, delicate, like some high wire act, yet gone terribly wrong when it slipped and fell before my eyes.
A motorist passed, hit it. The squirrel screeched human sounds, jumped up on back feet, front paws stretched out, stumbled left, then right.
“It’s a dead end.” Mother’s whispered words lifted with a breeze.
“It’s the West End.” My father leaned away from her.
I held my breath, rooted for the squirrel until the very end, hoped that the car missed and, somehow, the creature might’ve a chance to limp home to recover.
But the squirrel was, life was, inextricably lost.
“Same thing,” mother’s quiet voice floated off with her gaze.
I think of that eye bulging from the squirrel’s body, trying to escape its own death, watching me through the back window of an old Chevy wagon.
Copyright 2016 – Noreen Lace/West End
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Grandma’s Tour
….It’s Christmas day.
She wants to see where she thinks
Marilyn’s body lies……
My poem, “Grandma’s Tour”, is now available in Pilcrow and Dagger’s Holiday Traditions.
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Grandma’s Tour
My Poem, “Grandma’s Tour” will be published in Pilcrow & Dagger’s November/December issue!
This is especially poignant as my grandmother passed in August of this year. She wrote poetry herself and left me her book of touching, handwritten poems. It is one of my treasured texts.
I think she would’ve liked this poem. I’m saddened she didn’t get to read it or see it published in her honor.
Noreen Lace 
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