SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Ten
D. R. JAMES
Once, Subdivided
Like self-exiles, I was proximal; I
was blue spot-lit, gray spot-lit, somebody's
sector. I nudged slushy snow by nose and
froze touchingly, concealed my seclusion
like a cosseted crime. I snugged up to
angles-cum-anguish, to double-crosses,
to vessels and vassals, harnessed my gut,
my groans. In vain I trained for inclusion
at tables in gorgeous chambers of guilt,
black/red symmetrical graves. Then ... scrapped it.
D. R. James is from Michigan. The latest of his ten collections are Mobius Trip (Dos Madres Press, 2021) and Flip Requiem (Dos Madres Press, 2020).
