SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Ten
GEORGE MOORE
Where We Come From
The bog obviously by the mud
in my mouth
by the dark color of my hair
I was born of the battle
for the book and the cow
sprung from a thick earth
leveled by foreign armies
and I take my name
from an older sweeter earth
rot-rich and deep with ague
like a tree buried for centuries
feeding the veins of new leaves
We are split like twins
or the faces of a coin
like the mysticism in mirrors
or the inking of tattoos
and I still throw the bones
of sheep
when I ride the rim of a coffee cup
to a hidden circle of stones
and wait for the sun at its apex
to bring me home
George Moore lives on the south shore of Nova Scotia. He has published poetry in The Atlantic, Poetry, Colorado Review, Orion, and Stand. His collections are Children's Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry 2015) and Saint Agnes Outside the Walls (FutureCycle 2016).
