2012 — The Monarch Review — Page 10
Out Of Focus – John Osebold
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 14:01 — 0 Comments
Reed awoke one morning to find the city out of focus. First he thought his kitchen window was dirty. Then he worried his eyesight was damaged. But neither was the case. In truth, the skyline, the towers made of bricks, mortar, steel, and glass were fuzzy. The tallest towers were even missing their tops. Reed pondered whether or not to have breakfast. There was no reason not to, but he supposed that an entire city being out of focus deserved a symbolic change in one’s daily pattern, as when an acquaintance dies or a catastrophe occurs. In the end, out […]
Justine Smith
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 11:33 — 0 Comments
Currency, a source of conflict and illusion. Time is Money Inkjet with pearlised screen printing 2011 Money Map of Africa Inkjet on 330gsm Somerset satin enhanced paper 2007 The British Isles Diamond Dust and Inkjet printed on 330gsm Somerset satin enhanced paper 2010 Great Britain Archival Ink Jet print with pearlised screen printed detail 2012 A Bigger Bang Inkjet print on 330gsm Somerset Satin Enhanced paper 2009 Old Europe Inkjet print on 330gsm Somerset satin enhanced paper 2007 Euro Europe Inkjet print on 330gsm Somerset satin enhanced paper 2007 http://www.justinesmith.net
Over – Cindy Bee
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 12:54 — 0 Comments
My brother and I like to tip things over, blow things up and run away that we might sneak back to see how the pieces have landed. But on those rare days when one of us is diminished or punished or in need of something we can’t explain, we sit on the curb and draw in the dirt with a stick. Neither of us can draw much and our game is simple. On this chilly Saturday morning, my brother starts by drawing a circle. “This is a ball.â€Â I take the stick (we always share a stick) and say, “This […]
My Own Mysterious Present – Mark DeCarteret
Monday, July 2, 2012 18:44 — 0 Comments
gee, I’m a throwback, not even ex-worthy
“Hey, Who Has The Drink Tickets”
Thursday, June 28, 2012 13:28 — 6 Comments
As a musician, your life is fueled by a number of different things: the unique and strange people you meet, the absurd and beautiful things you see, an overwhelming desire to fulfill a purpose, or even something as simple as playing a song and someone telling you that you did a great job. All of these, and the timing in which these events occur, are essential to what makes musicians, myself included, tick. More often than maybe we’d like to admit, the effort of trying to push our art to its full potential feels like walking up the biggest mountain […]
Monarch #2 Release Party!!!
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 15:54 — 0 Comments
Hello All! We at The Monarch Review are pleased to announce the release of our second print edition, Monarch #2. We will have a party to celebrate the release at The Pub at Third Place on July 8th from 7p-11p where we will have copies of the new book for sale for $10 and mini handbound versions of the book for $20. Come hang with us, enjoy the 18 beers on tap and great food the Pub has to offer, hear music from the acoustic band The Monarch Duo (Cameron Peace, Eli Rosenblatt), and listen to the wonderful readers we […]
3 Stories – James Claffey
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:04 — 3 Comments
Rare Glimpse The Old Man travels home on the ferry from Stranraer, catching the night train in Belfast and arriving for breakfast. Mam is grilling Denny sausages and Galtee rashers to beat the band before he’s taken his pea coat off. “Come here to me, son,†he cries, sweeping me off my feet and dangling me upside down, my hair brushing the linoleum. “Did you miss your Da? Did you?†“I did, Da. Yes.†I smell the whiskey mixed with his Old Spice aftershave, even from my distant position near the ground. After righting me and giving my shoulder a […]
Alligator Wine – David Rawson
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:56 — 1 Comment
The two Kellys, side by side. Identical bowl haircuts, identical white shirts and tight black pants. One with a red armband on her left, the other with a green armband on her right. Never looking directly at anything for too long, and never at each other. One right, one left. One up, one down. The smirks to signal the ongoing joke: the knowing, bored look, which signals this has all happened before. And it has. The games started at 9, so the Kellys arrive at 11:30. Some people have come and gone. The Kellys have brought a bottle of champagne. […]
Decima After Marc Chagall’s “Daphnis et Chloé, La Leçon de Philéas†– Virgil Suarez
Monday, June 18, 2012 10:55 — 1 Comment
Where I come from there’s water this indigo, a mirror of erasure, made from a firmament of light, sharp and constant, and though
Betsy Barnum
Thursday, June 14, 2012 18:52 — 3 Comments
It’s four in the morning and I have just been awoken by a dream. I am overwhelmed by the emotions felt within my dream world, a taste left on my tongue, but I am lacking the clarity needed to decipher the code. Images shuffle through my mind’s eye faster than I can make sense of them.  I capture bits and pieces but only those that will themselves towards me. While this one eye is open the rest of me is filled with the fog and clouds of rest. Sense at this point is unattainable. Any thread or narrative is left […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
