SurVision Magazine / Alexander Romanovich

Gnomons

so what if the past has teeth
you still make way for the fabulous
collapse of daybreak
you make way for the ceaseless pantomime of scattered nightfalls
the secret radii of silences
when a great many things create vast open spaces
to offset their own presence
a gateway to the primeval forests

you cross the shadows with the same unseen afterglow
that haunts the night rain
you pause at the rift the great breach of seaways
the deeper you go
past the flowering display of divination
past the singularities as nude as glass
far beyond the lofty figures and their fluid veils
waterfalls lift their lace curtains
preach silence to the roar of the perspiring heavens
like stolen things peeking through the fabric of speech
as your fingers turn back to the fairy lights
unfolding
an inverted rose its petals on their way
to extravagant depths
off to the lurking iridescence of the Earth
inside its gears quietly ticking a
time has been set

Alexander Romanovich lives in New York City. He has previously published a chapbook entitled Mythopoeia, as well as a volume of poetry entitled The Keeping of Lights (in early 2019).

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An international online magazine that publishes Surrealist poetry in English. Issue Five ALEXANDER ROMANOVICH Gnomons so what if the past has teeth you still make way for the fabulous collapse of daybreak you make way for the ceaseless pantomime of scattered nightfalls the secret radii of silences when a great many things create vast open spaces to offset their own presence a gateway to the primeval forests you cross the shadows with the same unseen afterglow that haunts the night rain you pause at the rift the great breach of seaways the deeper you go past the flowering display of divination past the singularities as nude as glass far beyond the lofty figures and their fluid veils waterfalls lift their lace curtains preach silence to the roar of the perspiring heavens like stolen things peeking through the fabric of speech as your fingers turn back to the fairy lights unfolding an inverted rose its petals on their way to extravagant depths off to the lurking iridescence of the Earth inside its gears quietly ticking a time has been set Alexander Romanovich lives in New York City. He has previously published a chapbook entitled Mythopoeia, as well as a volume of poetry entitled The Keeping of Lights (in early 2019).
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