SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fourteen
MATT DENNISON
Frailbed
For the résumé of poverty to be complete
it is essential I poison my roots to grow
bewildering fruit and in bewildering
beguile the perfect angel, the marvelous
passage, that sonata of hollow chaos I seek
in order to possess the deeper emptinesses –
for I find the whole being-here aspect of life
to be appalling. The nerve, the nerve, I say,
as one who likes his mornings as they are –
dream-stupid, easily cheapened, a spoon
with serrated teeth for the day as I begin,
of necessity, to cleanse my stolen things
until the silver-law thunder above my
seabed does rise, captured in bliss.
Matt Dennison is from Indiana. He is the author of Kind Surgery (Urtica Press)
and Waiting for Better (Main Street Rag Press). His work has appeared in Verse
Daily, Rattle, Bayou Magazine, Redivider, and Cider Press Review.
