2011 — The Monarch Review — Page 16
Anti-Pastoral – James Hritz
Thursday, March 31, 2011 13:39 — 1 Comment
Leeches paint the face of my sister’s heirloom yarn doll.
Routine – Erik Hanson
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 14:11 — 4 Comments
Monday I arrive at work to see Steve standing next to the window looking out rather than sitting at his desk. His face is drawn tight. I drop my things off in my cubicle and ask him if anything is wrong.
A Chocolate Calculus – James Brantingham
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 14:47 — 6 Comments
I sat down on the back porch, a too short message in my hands—no road ahead, none behind, just the view of my back yard fence.
Ain’t Misbehaving – Timothy Baker
Monday, March 14, 2011 3:52 — 5 Comments
The man in the middle of the stage was obese and ginger. I wondered if he was really as spherical as he appeared or if the old VHS tape was adding weight, as I had heard appearing on TV could do. He held his trumpet incorrectly
Monarch Music is Many
Monday, March 14, 2011 3:23 — 0 Comments
Shana Cleveland & the Sandcastles do Oh Man, Cover the Ground, the title song from her new solo record, now available at shanacleveland.bandcamp.com It’s a love song about what’s hidden.Â
Kimberly Trowbridge
Sunday, March 13, 2011 18:17 — 2 Comments
Kimberly Trowbridge is a painter who merges abstraction and figuration into allegorical images that narrate the passage of time with layers of paint. Her paintings are the stage where internal visions mingle with external form, enacting the stark yet tender drama of the human experience. Plantlife, oil on canvas, 6o x 68″, 2010 Jupiter, oil on canvas, 60 x 68″, 2011 Transformation, oil on canvas, 60 x 68″, 2011
A Backward Look – Derek Otsuji
Thursday, March 10, 2011 14:34 — 0 Comments
On two occasions you were seen, they said,
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
