Donora Hillard

How to Love a Surrealist

Try to ignore poems he's written

for women before you that compare

their feet to lemons. Laugh when

he claims ants follow him everywhere.

If he doesn't call you one night,

picture him in Detroit, cutting his hair

in the mirror with kitchen scissors.

When he finally whispers I love you

for the first time, know he really means

The axe is near the staircase.

Donora Hillard is the author of the forthcoming Romance (Maverick Duck Press, 2008), as well as Bone Cages (BlazeVox [books], 2007) and Parapherna (dancing girl press, 2006).  Her fiction, lyric memoir, and poetry have appeared in NANO Fiction, Pebble Lake Review, The Pedestal Magazine, and elsewhere.