2012 — The Monarch Review — Page 18
Inn Of The Flying Plates – Sheila MacAvoy
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 13:29 — 3 Comments
She sat in the front seat of the Volvo and opened the L.A. Times as he inched down the driveway and avoided the branches of the pittosporum that needed pruning. She looked up once to admire the sleek lawn and the planting of daffodils that made their house look like an English cottage. Then she heard his intake of breath, as if he were about to comment on those offending shrubs, but thought better of it because they were officially not speaking. It had started last week. An argument over the replacement of the broken television in the family room. […]
The Turning Point – James Brantingham
Monday, January 2, 2012 13:53 — 2 Comments
At the still point of the turning world.
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
