SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Eleven
MEG POKRASS
Meeting a Hunter on the Beach
He looked like he had just woken up from a very long nap, maybe a long lifetime nap, and had landed here on the north shore of the loch. He seemed shy. (Little known fact: monster hunters are shy.)
"What brings you out here to the hinterlands?" I asked.
"I wanted to see the loch. The water here is so deep. I love how dark that makes it look," he said, and then I realized that my face was hot. Hot face, a strange woman with a hot face. Nobody useful.
'Deep, dark', dumb things to say. My intensity. Words sunk like logs. I no longer wanted to be a floating woman, disappearing and reappearing every day.
Moon Non-Magic
That night Moon looked like nothing more
than a piece of thrown up cheese,
and it depressed me.
I woke up imagining
myself stroking the monster with my hands.
Maybe the moon was in love with me,
the way my mother had been in love with my father –
in a possessive, sickening way.
That night I broke up with Moon to save him.
"I no longer need your flashlight
to find her," I said.
Meg Pokrass is from Santa Barbara,
California, and currently lives in Inverness, Scotland. She is the
author of eight collections of prose. Her work has appeared in three
recent Norton Anthologies of the flash fiction form, The Best Small Fictions 2022, and The Wigleaf Top 50. She is the
founding editor of the award-winning Best Microfiction anthology series.
