Elizabeth J. Colen — The Monarch Review
Go Away Closer – Elizabeth J. Colen
Monday, May 28, 2012 18:34 — 0 Comments
A cow reminds me of my dog and I’m home again, not still weightless in the train car, reading post-it notes you left in a folder. Yellow scatters on the dirty floor like some mad slow snow, it shifts around. I’m undone by the distance, by conversations with strangers, talk starts always with where are you headed or where have you been. No one really listens. Their story always better, judged by main characters who want nothing to do with what’s outside strict narrative of here to there, life to death, and don’t forget babies. I want to tell them […]
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
