SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fifteen
CLIVE DONOVAN
This Weeping Place
In this weeping place
it is cruelty of thought
that returns from shadow to bite
written on a cave wall an age ago
I tried to wash it all away
along with this treacherous day
she came to me like a Jill-in-the-Box
her face opening like an umbrella
then all dissolved as a cloud of ink
may drift in a wild pool of water
I do not dare disturb that memory
where she lay bends still doomed flowers
whose names I never knew
between them no room to sit
petals on petals
choked in their perfume
I stifle tears
in this old forgotten bit of meadow
Clive Donovan is from Devon, England. He is the author of two poetry collections, The Taste of Glass (Cinnamon Press, 2021]) and Wound Up With Love (Lapwing, 2022); his poems appear in Acumen, Agenda, Crannog, Popshot, Prole, Stand and SurVision.
