SurVision Magazine
An
international online magazine that
publishes Surrealist poetry
in English.
Issue Six
COLEMAN DUES
Thus Spake the Hare
The Hare sees you, though you see nothing.
The Leporine Gaze is a black hole, for it takes sight
away;
it unsees.
The
rabbit hops, but the Earth falls from underneath theHare;
the Hare pushes and remains fixed in
nothingness.
The
Hare sees you, though you are miles away fromnothingness.
yourself,
fathoms deep.
The
whole lonesome desert is the Hare's eye,concentrating
on your image.
The
Hare cares not for carrots; it chews on the cud ofyou;
it drinks from the sea you drown in.
The
Hare rebuilds you from a skeleton and ranks you inits
army; madness infects your soul and still the Hare
restores you.
The
Hare bounds down endless scrub-trails with you inrestores you.
tow,
and the Earth turns under your steps.
The
miasma dispelled from your lungs, the apoplecticrage
that leaps from your heart, the epilepsy catching
and throwing inside of you is but naught in the Hare's
eye.
The
Hare leads you down two paths, and you follow alland throwing inside of you is but naught in the Hare's
eye.
three.
Entropy is undone; mountains sit on their snowy peaks;
nothing
is invisible everything.
The
Hare is not a rabbit; the Hare sees you.Coleman Dues is a student in the Creative Writing MFA program at the New School, located in New York, New York. This is the first publication of his poetry.
