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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 / Your-Self, Something Compound / Anisha Jackson

The words ‘artichoke’ and ‘heart’

teach things green and dulcet and pulse passionate.

If I could place one to the left of my breastbone,

live with its meaty core and thistly flower,

it’d choke something saline out of all of us.

When a lover tells me, keep it on a low //

heat, I want to tell them

you’ve peeled apart my clustered, budding

petals, condensed yourself between each layer.

*first published by Full House Press and Canned Magazine


Anisha Jackson (she/her) is a first-class Literature with Creative Writing graduate from the University of East Anglia. In 2020 she started the digital platform SIGNED, NEPAL for Nepali creatives. In September 2021 Anisha starts her MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, London. You can find her work in MIR Online, Ghost City Press and Porridge Magazine.

POETRY / When the woman saw / Jericho Hockett

FICTION / down / Matt Petras

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