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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 / Riverwalk Late March / S.C. Thibodeau

In the glaring and anemic spring sunlight the twisted ribs of a rusted
walkway float half-submerged in the calm canal—something unseen
still moors them to the mill wall. Further on baseballs circumscribe
arcs of spring—a bluegrey squad of Riverhawks warm up
on their bright pitch. A front loader over in LeLacheur Park
makes mounds in the bullpen. The mighty Merrimack swole
and blue with white caps announcing in advance submerged
stones. The air not warmthe sun trying best it canbut why
give it agency? The earth tilting back on its endless spin
cycletowards longer caresses for us from a careless star —we stir
like a cat in a closed roomdust drifting down delineating
a golden slant of warm endless possibility. A woman talking
earnestly in my ears on a podcast brings me present: I do not tell
my story in order to be saved. I tell my story because
[her voice
breaking] I have been saved. The joy of this gift that I have
been given—that I have gratitude for—makes me
want to share it with other people and be of service.


S.C. Thibodeau lives in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in The Sandy River Review, Super Arrow, and Transcend.

POETRY / Elliot Page Just Came Out as Trans / Benjamin Anthony Rhodes

ESSAY / Saying Goodbye to My TV Boyfriend / Katie Darby Mullins

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