SurVision Magazine
An
international online magazine that
publishes Surrealist poetry
in English.
Issue Seven
PATRICK HURLEY
[grand cabinet of inquisition]
electromagnetic fields and
a kind of ghost rattling
plastic rings and beads—
poorly worded questions
make of suspense
a salty amuse bouche
listen only to textured voices
they mutter old manuscripts
stealing the names of birds
does not enable you to fly
medical oddities and
creatures from mythology—
someone has raided
the old reliquary
where have the sacred
fragments been taken?
[pregnant forgeries]
boundaries are transgressed
as fine rain
alters the atmosphere
the counterfeits
have been accumulating
and in this changed air
they are easy to spot
predictable sounds
shall now be nameless
then an embarrassment
of nomenclature
everything amounts to
sifting through debris
a shard of broken mirror
will turn up
radioactive refugees
left out in the rain
repeated phrases change meaning
this is their raison d'être
Patrick Hurley lives in Saint Louis, Missouri (US). Adelaide Books has published his poetry collection entitled walking (2020).
