SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fourteen
SARAH GREENWOOD
New Year, or ways of exploding yourself
When they forgot to water and tend to me,
I began to tug at my root.
It was deeper than I thought.
When I pulled myself out
they all fell down.
I set fire to my wick one day,
spattered myself across the sky
until all the birds flew away.
I boomed and echoed,
made the windows shake
to the beat of my pulse.
I waited on the plane
when everyone else rushed off,
locked myself in the bathroom
and flew back
to where I had come from
just to make sure
it was still there.
I played a trick on myself,
pretended to do magic
until I couldn't tell
whether I was pretending
or whether it was really magic.
I played hide and seek
and hid in a drawer.
There was no better feeling than hiding
until there was the feeling of being found.
Sarah Greenwood is a poet and translator from the Northwest of England who migrated to the Algarve, Portugal in 2006. Her poetry has been published in Amethyst Review, Ink, Sweat & Tears, and in the anthology Up the Duff (DragonYaffle, 2022). Her debut translation of modern surrealist play The Door Closed and the House was Small by Ricardo Neves-Neves was published by Inti Press in 2023.
