Jacob Bennett — The Monarch Review
Two Poems – Jacob Bennett
Monday, June 26, 2017 12:06 — 0 Comments
7th Grade If you start dressing like this for anything other than Halloween, we’re gonna have to talk, she said, as she used a foreign brush on my aqua-blue eyelids. I stood up and faced my step-sister’s mirror – the one that had seen me so many times before in her thongs and robes while she was at cheerleading practice. I adjusted the hair tie on my left pig tail and smoothed out the socks stuffed in the polka-dot blouse I had so carefully chosen at Wal-Mart. Hoping to bring home bigger candy bars, my brother and I went to […]
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
