SurVision Magazine

Moon at Perigree


Your dead bulbous face
in the overflow
of universal time.

Transmuting spheres
and crescents
of beauty transfix,

pull at my heart.







John Saunders was born in Co. Wexford, Ireland, and now lives in Co. Offaly. His poems have appeared in Crannog, The Moth Magazine, Prairie Schooner Literary Journal (Nebraska), Sharp Review, The Stony Thursday Book, and Boyne Berries. His collections are After the Accident (Lapwing Press, 2010) and Chance (New Binary Press, 2013).