Richard Weaver
A Bartender poured himself
into his job, studying mixology when he wasn't tending, drinking when he wasn't
sleeping. He imagined new concoctions that would amaze Richard Feynman and
Stephen Hawking, two teetotalers. His dream: to merge physics and fermentation,
to embrace and capture the galaxy therein, to excite a mouth of gold teeth or
lead fillings. In such a world kidneys and bladder are anathema. Something to
be overcome. His goal is simple, not mere intoxication. He seeks the perfect
near-death experience. A glimpse of the promised. A God-winking hint of what
is to come, chased with a final soberness, its memory etched in every cell.
Bio
Post-Covid, the author has returned as the writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub. Among his other pubs: conjunctions, Louisville Review, Southern Quarterly, Free State Review, Hollins Critic, Misfit Magazine, Loch Raven Review, The Avenue, New Orleans Review, & SOI. He's the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press, 1992), and wrote the libretto for a symphony, Of Sea and Stars (2005). He was a finalist in the 2019 Dogwood Literary Prize in Poetry. His 195th Prose poem was recently published since 2016.