Latest news: Texture of Silence illustrations have made the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Longlist for Best Artwork.
The waves that once washed along
O’Connell Street have taken the bus
south to Cronulla. Although they paid
their fare, the other passengers
complained loudly, and not a few
disembarked.
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“I’ve marinated Minkowski Spacetime
in a mixture of olive oil and lemon juice,”
The Goddess Janaína seemed pleased
with herself. I was her prisoner
in the O’Connell Street house,
and I’d long since stopped questioning
her ineffable motivations.
She looked over my shoulder.
“I was referring to a region
of space-time here in the kitchen,
which currently contains a fish.
“What do you mean by ‘prisoner’?
Airbnb brought you here,
you stayed because you fear
the world outside.
“And your poetry,“ she hesitated
for a moment, “Your poetry
is self-indulgent.”
I gasped. She was right
about everything.
My only choice was to leave,
return to Cronulla, where the sand
flows into the sea, cast my fate
to the angels of rain and wind,
face my frailty and discover
who I am.
“… Do you think … you might …
come with me … to the beach?
I’ll buy you coffee and banana bread.”
Out now, a collaboration between the euphonic author Eugen Bacon & the somewhat author & artist Inconstant Light: Texture of Silence, a collection of illustrated prose poetry from Independent Legions; and Purpose of Reality, illustrated collections of poetry and stories in two volumes from Meerkat Press. Click titles for details.
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Spacetime (no AI in the creation of this art video). Part of the Beyond AI Project, evolved by the Visual Evolution Engine, my software that seeks unimagined realms, with Cyclic Nonlinear Desaturation and Ultracubism. Art and poetry also on Instagram.
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