SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Ten
ROY DUFFIELD
Running
After Chandra Livia Candiani
the dogs at your heels on
a runaway runway road
a chevron shadow
points your way,
a harmless hunting eagle
seen in fisheye
open, wide
the landscape
the mountains
keep your stride
as together you leave
the foreground behind
the bell rings
in a town
where nobody lives
there's frost
on blackberries burnt
that nobody ate
rushes
the wind
rushes titter snicker
as you sprint
a lone
tree cackles crackles
its yellow leaves
scatter
like ash in
the wind
its Spring fire
spent.
Roy Duffield lives in Barcelona, Spain. He is art editor at Anti-Heroin Chic journal. His poems appear in Indigo Dreams, The Nashville Review, Quadrant, The Living Senryu Anthology, and The London Reader's Counterculture number. He is a winner of the Robert Allen Micropoem Contest (2021)
