Surrealist Paintings (1-26) Poem by Zachary Zuccaro

Surrealist Painting # 1
The coffee-stained interior of a balloon
envelopes the painting of a coffee
mug with no bottom yet filled
with smoke.

Surrealist Painting #2

A young boy
observes feathers
swimming in an aquarium.

Surrealist Painting #3

A crystalline blimp
relegated to patrolling
the outer perimeters
of the universe.

Surrealist Painting # 4

A building completely covered
by the roots of the tree
growing on it.

Surrealist Painting #5

A solitary puffin
perches upon a large stone
on a desolate grey beach.
The clown admires six moons
orbiting her planet.

Surrealist Painting #6

A cockroach
explodes
underneath the oven.

Surrealist Painting #7

An army of praying mantises
travelling on the backs of caterpillars
arrive at a castle
that they hope to seize.

Surrealist Painting #8

An expanse of white concrete
leads to a multitude
of geometrically diverse glass buildings.
In the forefront,
two mountainous towers
form waterfalls that descend
into channels providing shallow rivers.
Citizens ride boats
from one end of the city
to the other.

Surrealist Painting #9

A jelly-like aperture
closes
to encompass
a banana peel.

Surrealist Painting #10

A horse feeds on a Venus fly trap
while another one of the plants
feeds on the horse.

Surrealist Painting #11

A herd of antelopes
grazing on the sand
of the Sahara desert.


Surrealist Painting #12

An open book lies
on an oak table.
An orchard of fruit
trees grow from its pages.
Brains are ripe for the picking.


Surrealist Painting #13

Every Sunday,
a man
takes out
his lawnmower
and cuts
the hair
of the head
he lives on.

Surrealist Painting #14

Distorted reflections
of a room
on the pendulum
of a clock.


Surrealist Painting # 15

Distorted reflection
of a murder
forever engraved
on the pendulum
of a grandfather clock.


Surrealist Painting #16

A hen nestles in a lunar crater
and prepares
to lay her eggs.


Surrealist Painting #17

A hammerhead shark
a lion fish
a puffer fish
a squid
a jellyfish
all swimming
in a glass of water
sitting on top of a head
of cabbage.


Surrealist Painting #18

A tick,
swollen with blood,
rides on the back
of a stink bug
crawling up a lampshade.


Surrealist Painting #19

Wearing sunglasses
an eggplant reclines under an umbrella,
on the seashore,
and reads a novel.


Surrealist Painting #20
A door opened
offering a glimpse
of the forbidden hallways.

Nothing was visible
but a gleaming porcelain floor -
no wall in sight.


Surrealist Painting #21

Light from the black streetlamp
illuminates a praying mantis
consuming a mackerel
in the middle of the street.


Surrealist Painting #22

Men in suits
stand on the shore
with hands in their pockets
as they examine
the beached Kraken.
Its black eyes,
each as large as a man's head
still retain their glossy gleam.


Surrealist Painting #23

One tentacle is wrapped
around the remnants of a ship;
another,
a pencil.


Surrealist Painting #24

A pair of anthromorphic eyes
weep in the white abyss
because they are forbidden to enter
within the confines of the universe.


Surrealist Painting #25

The fishermen
pull in their nets
overflowing
with turnips and avocados.


Surrealist Painting #26

After baking for one hour,
the loaves of ice
are ready for consumption.