Terry Edmonds’ poetry confronts us in subtle and powerful ways. Drawing from his own improbable journey from the projects of Baltimore to notable professional successes, he achieves a philosophical approach to some of the most salient issues of our time. Love, poverty, family and injustice are addressed in a collection of reflections and questions that encompass both the intimate and the universal.

TURBULENCE

Cruising fifteen hundred feet subzero mid-flight above the Arctic, ancient peaks of stone-edged passion peek through clouds half dressed in flimsy blankets of windblown snow

The only sound a slightly off-beat crackle of watercolor blue ice melting – echoes of warming extinction

A huddle of shivering penguins sit shiva for the planet tonight

From every man-made bird’s eye view the rising sea murmurs: Peace be still no more

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