Six Poems

by James B. Nicola

pg. 1 (Originally published in Cannon’s Mouth, 2023)

pg. 2 (Originally published in The South, 2019)

pg. 3 (Originally published in Samjoko, 2022)

pg. 4 (Originally published in Wingless Dreamer, 2025)

pg. 5 (Originally published in Kathmandu Tribune, 2021)

pg. 6 (Originally published in Willows Wept Review, 2021)

BIO: James B. Nicola's nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice magazine award. Recent nonfiction can be found on-line at Heimat Review, About Place, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Unlikely Stories and Lowestoft Chronicle; fiction, at Epistemic, 10 x 10 Flash Fiction, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The GroundUp, Sine Qua Non, and Platform Review; upcoming poetry in Blood+Honey. The latest of his eight full-length poetry collections are Fires of Heaven, Turns & Twists, and Natural Tendencies.