Mercury Rising appears in Tales of the Talisman Volume 4, Issue 4

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Tales of the Talisman Volume 4, Issue 4

My poem Mercury Rising appears in this exquisite issue of Tales of the Talisman, graced by the eternal Marilyn Monroe.

The poem is about the survivors of a flooded Earth, now living in skyscraper-sized Habitats in orbit around Venus.

It was written back in 2007 during a sudden burst of inspiration along with 2 other still-homeless poems I’d neglected to find a home for.

Although it is a premise that has been explored extensively in many literary mediums, in poetry, such tragedy and triumph can always be remolded into a thing of laconic beauty.

Tales of the Talisman can be ordered here and its TOC here.

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