“Damn” © Bonnie Matthews Brock

 

none of it matters

dancing monkeys will have you believe
that the stock market is up,
and that their cocks are shinier than yours
but dust settles
mighty quickly
and ten thousand tear-filled sunrises
equal
one hundred years
of buttered scones
with tea.

 

Scott Taylor hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a writer and a musician, and an avid world traveler. His short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Vast Chasm, Ghost City Review, Oddball, Literary Hatchet and Swifts and Slows. His novels Chasing Your Tail and Screwed have been released with Silver Bow Publishing, and his novellas Freak and Ernie and the Golden Egg are slated for inclusion in an upcoming anthology with Running Wild Press. He graduated from Cornell University and was a computer programmer in a past life.

Bonnie Matthews Brock is a Florida-based photographer, as well a school psychologist. She loves hiking the urban and woodland trails of “anywhere” (and pausing often to shoot photos) with her very patient husband (and often collaborator), Ted. Her images have been featured on the covers of magazines such as Ibbetson Street, Wild Roof Journal, Poesy Magazine, Humana Obscura, and Arkansas Review; as well as on the pages of publications such as Oddball Magazine, Ember Chasm Review, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Beaver Magazine, and Lateral. Her works are archived at institutions such as Poets House NYC, Brown University, and Harvard University.