SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fifteen
PHILIP VENZKE
Pastoral Contempt
The angel behind the angel, impaled
through the wing by the stretcher pole,
could still plié and pinch and pluck
the canvas tents littered on the forest floor,
snatching them like food-stained napkins
from the unfortunate lace tablecloth.
And while this horizontal collaboration
continues, let no one forget the miniature
mannequin spinning in a frozen pirouette
atop the crown of the empty water tower.
Philip Venzke is from Wisconsin. His poems appear in Harbinger Asylum, Door Is a Jar, Bramble, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Overground Underground, One Sentence Poems, Bramble, Moss Piglet, Illumen, Verse Wisconsin, Right Hand Pointing, and SurVision. His chapbook, Chant to Save the World, won the James tate Prize and was subsequently published by SurVision Books in 2022. His second chapbook of poetry, Rules to Change the World, has been published by Finishing Line Press in 2023.
