SurVision Magazine / Ronald Terry

Forbidden Beauty

The mouth opens
and closes, blinking
the pink of the tongue.

To gaze upon the body,
forever stained,
rain-cut from rock,
softened by pain.

The word preceded the image
and cast its purity
murky, biblical – marble skin
wrapped in artifice,
a rigid statue.

Angels are eternally young,
just blossomed from the grave
and ready for flight.
Do not look, lest
you turn to stone.

Ronald Terry works as a technical writer in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. His poems appear in Spectral Realms, Star*Line, Bete Noire, Poetrybay, Dead Snakes, Night Cry, Space and Time, Amanita Brandy, The Horror Zine, Eternal Haunted Summer, etc.

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An international online magazine that publishes Surrealist poetry in English. Issue Nine RONALD TERRY Forbidden Beauty The mouth opens and closes, blinking the pink of the tongue. To gaze upon the body, forever stained, rain-cut from rock, softened by pain. The word preceded the image and cast its purity murky, biblical – marble skin wrapped in artifice, a rigid statue. Angels are eternally young, just blossomed from the grave and ready for flight. Do not look, lest you turn to stone. Ronald Terry works as a technical writer in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. His poems appear in Spectral Realms, Star*Line, Bete Noire, Poetrybay, Dead Snakes, Night Cry, Space and Time, Amanita Brandy, The Horror Zine, Eternal Haunted Summer, etc.
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