SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fourteen
KIM SALINAS SILVA
Sophisticated Lady
A high heeled shoe who wore out a whore. The lady is round and punishing and repels mosquitoes. Black seeds in her eyes like skid marks. A hat-shaped green plant worn like a mountain. Wire coat hangers. Against a light blue, sea hue background. She walks near a boulder. A shoe/human hybrid figure, slouching on the high heel. Allowing herself to be swallowed by night. She's been injected with fire, the only light in the forest. One arm ablaze with yellow sparks. But she's an unassuming person, humble. How many minutes does it take to die by burning. Don't take up the people's time. Everybody, turn your faces away. Oh here it comes, numbers slumbering, 7654321, a small army wandering off a trail ending in zero. But she's still breathing. Resurrected without the pounce of death. Her diamond teeth, surprising everyone. Her fire, the crackling shine. She slouches down, can't get back up. Round and kind and dead all over.
Kim Salinas Silva is from Rhode Island. Her works appear, or are forthcoming, in The Literary Review, Litbreak, Poor Yorick, BarBar, MONO Literary, Unbroken, Gone Lawn, South Florida Poetry Journal, Meniscus, The Disappointed Housewife, Rhode Island Bard's Anthology, etc.
