Demon Song and Elephant Ears is a collection of poetry by Matthew Hayos (aka Erik) that plays with the esoterics and metaphysics of surrealist poetry on a journey that explores themes of consciousness, nature, life and the cosmos. Everything becomes an catalyst to poetry and poetry becomes an essential ingredient in exploring existence itself.

The shadow work is never done. As long as there is light they always come…

So in the utter dark we marry the most intimate pitch of our light with the very edge of oblivion. We’ve always measured ourselves to and with existence, that elusive increment of time and space in which we find ourselves now frozen in place. In here, where we think in wandering droves about the absence of sleep, the west of east, the north, the south and all the cardinal directions in between. Of water and wood and earth and metal and fire to air… In here is where we found ourselves suddenly lost. Lost among a universe of trees, an endless soft emerald forest spanning across the entire surface of this thing…