2013 — The Monarch Review — Page 24
ODE TO MY MAGPIE – Paulann Petersen
Monday, January 7, 2013 10:50 — 0 Comments
whose light is a sun and a darkness
The Last Game – Shaun Scott
Saturday, January 5, 2013 15:49 — 0 Comments
I watched the Seattle Seahawks’ last regular season game of their 2012-2013 campaign at one of the few sports bars in the city’s young and trendy Capitol Hill neighborhood, a stripped-down, dank place called “Bill’sâ€. I was waiting for my college friend Chris, who was in town from San Francisco. Chris had a ruthless hangover, which impaired his ability to make and keep plans. We schemed to meet for kick-off, but I sat through the first half alone surrounded by other people, clapping politely at the TV while perfect strangers at the bar lived and died loudly with every play. […]
Kelda Martensen
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 13:16 — 1 Comment
I watched a group of pigeons fly today. Watched them swoop to the left on a short-lived voyage, interrupted by a right moving momentum. I watched them glide through the air, carried by the wind, before rerouting themselves to the left they’d just seen.
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
