Artist Statement:
With short fiction and poetry, a writer can add the political element to socially current topics if they choose, while still actively creating in an enjoyable/plausible-reality storytelling format. Ed explores and blends biographical fiction and dreamscape planes through varied atmospheric sketches of set and setting.
Materials on the hull of a militarized jet
have mostly melted
The result of proximity fieldwarp collision
with high-velocity spacecraft
Dual parachutes glow
mildest hues of light purple
Reflection of color in my mind’s eye
Bursting with hieroglyphics
in sacred configurations
As I descend to the oceans below
Perhaps I will see a while –
An ancient sea turtle
And riding upon its great shell
whisper visions of clean waters
Forests returned to mountains
Disease and want chronicled away
In the centralized archives
Of a planet without borders
Tearduct moisture travels upwards
to meet with distant clouds
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