SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fifteen
DANE CERVINE
The Metaphorical City
...the
city's figmentary buildings dream that they are one with the
One.
—Vijay Seshadri, from "Immediate City"
—Vijay Seshadri, from "Immediate City"
Beneath Paris there is another city, from which the visible metropolis is hewn.
It is hidden, but there is a map. Hallways and chambers given names by its travelers:
The Passage of the Claustrophile; The Boutique of Psychosis; The Clinic of the Aliens; The Medusa.
On each page of the map, a blue compass-rose with an orange arrow
points the way. A country is also like a soul. Labyrinthian, boulevards above,
caverns with narrow entries below. This is not only a metaphor.
This is not only our last chance.
The Power of One
It's easy to forget the audacity. One cell begins to reshuffle its genes,
births something new rather than a perfect clone. Now,
anything might happen. In myth, the first wayward heroes failed,
eaten by the great dragon, drowned in the uniform sea.
Till the hero with a thousand faces learned to swim, better-wield
her sword. The individual, a novel story in the illiterate maw of life.
A poison? The secret to everything?
Dane Cervine lives in Santa Cruz, California. His latest book of poetry, The World Is God's Language is published by Sixteen Rivers Press. Recent books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword (Saddle Road Press). His work appears in The SUN, the Hudson Review, TriQuarterly, Poetry Flash, Catamaran, Miramar, Rattle, Sycamore Review, Pedestal Magazine, etc.
