SurVision Magazine / Iain Britton

At the Lake,

you tell us – where the sun
breakfasts on moonlight
where stars
swim up streams to breed

a hot spring
turns up the heat

*
your father
takes to the day with a knife
& cuts open its skin

*
hills & forests spill out over islands
over wooden edifices sunk in the earth

*
your mother scrubs her dreams & listens to the news
your father buries his dog – we talk politics – play cards
because we want to – i make coffee

you give me your hat

because you want to – & outside

a solitary flag

shakes off its bearded symbols

Iain Britton is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet and author of several poetry collections. His poems appear in Harvard Review, Poetry, The New York Times, Stand, Agenda, New Statesman, Prototype, New Humanist, and Ink Sweat & Tears, and has been nominated for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection. The Intaglio Poems was published by Hesterglock Press in 2017. A new chapbook, Project Constellation, has been published by Sampson Low (UK, 2022).

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An international online magazine that publishes Surrealist poetry in English. Issue Eleven IAIN BRITTON At the Lake, you tell us – where the sun breakfasts on moonlight where stars swim up streams to breed a hot spring turns up the heat * your father takes to the day with a knife & cuts open its skin * hills & forests spill out over islands over wooden edifices sunk in the earth * your mother scrubs her dreams & listens to the news your father buries his dog – we talk politics – play cards because we want to – i make coffee you give me your hat because you want to – & outside a solitary flag shakes off its bearded symbols Iain Britton is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet and author of several poetry collections. His poems appear in Harvard Review, Poetry, The New York Times, Stand, Agenda, New Statesman, Prototype, New Humanist, and Ink Sweat & Tears, and has been nominated for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection. The Intaglio Poems was published by Hesterglock Press in 2017. A new chapbook, Project Constellation, has been published by Sampson Low (UK, 2022).
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