John Osebold — The Monarch Review
City Lighthouse 4 – John Osebold
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 13:18 — 0 Comments
NOT LYDIA is not named Lydia. She sits on a park bench one day and sees a mountain hovering over a parking lot. Such a thing! Her brain alights trying to figure it out but instead a piano is on fire underground. She can’t stop crying it’s so beautiful. A single lightbulb flickers on and a voiceover describes things you’re not seeing. A dead man sits with his back turned to us. We realize we’re outside. It’s night and we can’t speak. We just watch the dead man and wonder what his face is. NOT LYDIA spends an entire montage […]
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 […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
