Ryan E. Felton

  • Facebook Apology to William Fuller, ca. 2012

    Facebook Apology to William Fuller, ca. 2012 Ryan Everett Felton           Billy,           It’s nearly twenty years overdue, but my therapist and I feel that I owe you an apology, and it’s all to do with the monkey I brought into Mrs. Stockholm’s class, back in fourth…

  • A Routine

    A Routine Ryan Everett Felton           One.           Two.           Three.           I shift the car from park to drive the requisite number of times. I count along in my head, as the ritual demands.        …

  • Correspondence

    Correspondence Ryan Everett Felton “We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Mother was an eccentric, yes, but for the first time in my adult life I can say without a doubt that she was perfectly sane. The day we laid her to rest (that’s such a funny thing to say, isn’t it?…

  • And now, a brief repose:

    As the serial “Good-Bye Garden” winds down to a close in the next few weeks, I thought it might be a nice interlude to share with you this wall art poem I drafted for my good friends’ new daughter. Cheers! (see you Monday!)

  • The Good-Bye Garden: Part Six

    IX              After binding my wrists with some hemp they took me to an enormous and grotesque white building, all sharp angles and mottled with pebbles and granite chunks. They called it “City Hall.” There was a ring of deep water around it full of piranha and the leftover bones of all their previous meals.…