Poetry — May 19, 2011 14:14 — 0 Comments

Captain Procrastination – Jenny Billings Beaver

Zack, my favorite slacker
student, texted me 21 minutes
into class: I won’t make it class today.
It was every other super hero’s night off
last night and it was a very long night.

I checked the message in front
of his classmates, chuckled
and erased the marking beside his name,
excusing his absence on behalf
of creativity.

Bio:

Jenny Billings Beaver is a native Charlottean, with a MFA in Creative Writing in Poetry from Queens University of Charlotte and a BA in English from Wake Forest University. She lives in Charlotte, NC currently with her husband, Justin, and teaches English at Rowan Cabarrus Community College. She is also the poetry editor for Referential Magazine. Her work has appeared or is to appear in Referential Magazine, Southern Women's Review, Poets for Living Waters, Girls with Insurance, vox poetica, The Dead Mule of Southern Literature, The Penwood Review, Sliver of Stone, H.O.D and Writer’s Advice.

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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

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