SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Eleven
MARTINE BELLEN
In Conversation with Gerard Manley Hopkins
Feel the fell of nightfall
Built of bones, boles, portmanteau trunks and sapwood
Blood. What sights the wooden heart has seen:
Insouciant sloth, chimerical meerkat and other introverted animals
Pass through a door in a cave
in a cavity
in the cerebellum
There's a willingness
a wishbone, which vibrates song,
For the campanologist to sound
Bluebird's tune / stones' inscape
Prevising memory
Arising sun
East in the Land of Nod
Where extraverted animals
In the louche lawn land.
To right oneself, one's inflection point.
You plant your feet deep for taproots,
Need weeded paths
To cleave the reaved heart.
Hear throngs of tongues
That touch a terrestrial kingdom
And wing a nightly ship toward somnolent skies,
Renewing evanescence resonance.
Martine Bellen lives in New York City. Her nine collections of poetry include The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon Press), Ghosts! (Spuyten Duyvil), and Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems (Sun & Moon; a winner of the National Poetry Award). Her tenth collection, An Anatomy of Curiosity, will be published in early 2023 by MadHat Press.
