SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Ten
MATTHEW RILEY
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Once
I heard a song
become a storm.
Round.
Full of light.
Ready to blow.
And in the song
a man sang
I feel safer touching wood.
But the song
was a cloud
and the only wood
was a word;
a bright white tongue
on fire.
Ready to strike.
Ready
to make me think
straight.
Proper
like a stave.
Proper
as the function
of a femur bone;
but sad
like a shadow lost
under a skimming stone.
Matthew Riley is a poet and library director from Houston, Texas. His poems appear in a number of anthologies, including publications by Dos Gatos Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Mutabilis Press in Houston, Texas.
