MONICA KAGAN - POEMS

Monica Kagan lives by the sea in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa with her wonderful cat. She enjoys bewitching words. Her work appears in the Slim Volume: This Body I Live In anthology of poetry and flash fiction (Pankhearst, UK) November 2015, Fresh (Pankhearst, UK) February 2016, Awen #92 (Atlantean Publishing, UK) May 2016, Awen #95 (Atlantean Publishing, UK) February 2017 and at FICTION on the WEB (UK) February 2017.

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THE DNA OF EXISTENCE
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​Life's complex alchemy of elements
Tapestry of DNA
The organic template of life
Heralding our entry to the world
faces upturned to the sun
 
Along our life's journey
we strive to find meaning
and thrive
in the face of
the Apocalyptic Four
who wreak havoc on our shores
 
before the chasm of entropy
swallows us all
 

ELEGY FOR ALEJANDRO
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​Hair untamed, Agatha's
tears a jagged path engrave
upon her cheeks
Alejandro, by the sword of Thanatos, slain
his tender caress
scents mingling
she craves
 
Veins filled with ice;
Seeds of sorrow take root
in her belly
shooting their frozen spikes
Soul-penetrating
 
Agatha faces the heavens
implores the Fates
Their answer a torrent of rain unleashes
 
As They turn away
she stares at the words
carved upon the sargophagus;
meaningless in death.
 

THE TALISMAN
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​Empty.
Eviscerated.
Profusion of panic
Trapped in the vast depths
of a crater;
unexplored crevices
overwhelm me.
 
I thrust my hand into my pocket.
My pen.
My talisman.