SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fourteen
DANIEL HUDON
Elective Affinities
And not any old egg
but a colossal egg
almost as large
as the cage itself
standing on end
able to hold
a murmuration of starlings
a migration of snow geese
a message of crows
so that I wonder
how it got there
in the first place
what kind
of creature
might have laid it
what mysteries
are so great
they must be kept
in a cage
what kind
of universe
it might birth
if only someone
would please come
let it out
and hatch it
The Empire of Light
After Philip Memmer after Magritte
in the street of our house the shade hums dark
dark the trees, dark the night
in the first floor of our house the windows are shuttered
close the night, empty the street
in the cusp of our twilight, our lives are still
shhhh, shhhh
on the edge of our dark the lamp sings light
delight the gloam, dim the street
on the second floor of our lives the windows are lit
quiet the light, uncloud our lives
in the clouds of sky the empire chants tonight
open the clouds, daylight the mind
Daniel Hudon, originally from Canada, lives in Boston, USA and teaches physics, astronomy and math at the college level. He is the author of Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader (Pen & Anvil Press, 2017). He has recent poems appearing in Biophilia, The Woods Reader, and Albatross.
