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DRUNK MONKEYS IS A Literary Magazine and Film Blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more

Editor-in-chief KOLLEEN CARNEY-HOEPFNEr

managing editor

chris pruitt

founding editor matthew guerrero

POETRY Time once taught us by Elizabeth Bolton

Photo by Urmi (License: Creative Commons BY)

Photo by Urmi (License: Creative Commons BY)

that what is frozen roars for eternity (and that’s too much for us) while gashes in our wrists will bleed ceaseless, fluttering crimson ribbons.

He surfaced in our Moment of Greatest Need, taking one of our soft hands in both of His, holding low branches aside, pointing out a thick root to step over

and with Him as slow, tedious guide we’ve crossed this forest ever since, far too obedient to ask where it ends but in silence

wondering, might that roar have been more bearable than we thought? Could we not try that place, one more time? There at least

Death cannot be so much as grasped 

amid its din. 
 


Elizabeth Bolton is a poet, writer and PhD student at the University of Toronto where she studies writing and the brain. She grew up in northern California and earned her Bachelor's degree from U.C. Berkeley. Her poetry has appeared in NoD Magazine and the Miracle Monocle, and her fiction is included in a forthcoming anthology of experimental fiction published by New Urge Books. 


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