Picaroon - Issue #7 - March 2017
Happy first birthday, Picaroon Poetry! We published Issue #1 last March, and I'm so pleased to see how far our little home for rogue poems has come. Thank you to writers, readers, submitters, supporters, and everyone who fights the good Picaroon fight (poetry-related or otherwise) for you are all the reason we do what we do. This issue feels like spring: parents and children, the glory and disappointment of youth, nature, and sex all make appearances, as do religion, mental health issues, dwellings, and learning from mistakes. Featuring work by David Seddon, Steven Bruce, Sue Kindon, Yoni Hammer-Kossoy, Marc Woodward, Jamie Houghton, Rachel Burns, Nikki Robson, R.K. Wallace, Jennifer Lothrigel, Rosie Garland, Sophie McKeand, Abigail Elizabeth Ottley Wyatt, Leslie Thomas, Courtney LeBlanc, Scott Edward Anderson, John C. Fitzsimmons, raphael d'abdon, Bobby Steve Baker, Oz Hardwick, Louisa Campbell, Brett Evans, John Grey, Robert Ford, Kate Noakes, Cheryl Pearson, Simon Cockle, Ben Banyard, and Howie Good.
Happy first birthday, Picaroon Poetry! We published Issue #1 last March, and I'm so pleased to see how far our little home for rogue poems has come. Thank you to writers, readers, submitters, supporters, and everyone who fights the good Picaroon fight (poetry-related or otherwise) for you are all the reason we do what we do. This issue feels like spring: parents and children, the glory and disappointment of youth, nature, and sex all make appearances, as do religion, mental health issues, dwellings, and learning from mistakes. Featuring work by David Seddon, Steven Bruce, Sue Kindon, Yoni Hammer-Kossoy, Marc Woodward, Jamie Houghton, Rachel Burns, Nikki Robson, R.K. Wallace, Jennifer Lothrigel, Rosie Garland, Sophie McKeand, Abigail Elizabeth Ottley Wyatt, Leslie Thomas, Courtney LeBlanc, Scott Edward Anderson, John C. Fitzsimmons, raphael d'abdon, Bobby Steve Baker, Oz Hardwick, Louisa Campbell, Brett Evans, John Grey, Robert Ford, Kate Noakes, Cheryl Pearson, Simon Cockle, Ben Banyard, and Howie Good.
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How to Be Lonely<br />
Jamie Houghton<br />
Go on social media.<br />
Get off social media.<br />
Say yes when the lady who runs the slow coffeeshop<br />
asks for help with email.<br />
Write a friend<br />
who broke a knee. She writes back<br />
I urge you not to burn your old journals.<br />
Realize she just stopped you from breaking your own heart.<br />
Talk to loneliness.<br />
Yell into its den<br />
(You must yell<br />
loud as you can)<br />
or just sing a little bit, badly.<br />
Don’t scream now, you will have to<br />
anyway next time<br />
you stub your toe<br />
jolt awake from the sleep of your thoughts.<br />
Ajax your sink until it’s bone white<br />
take some old newspaper and polish your mirror<br />
look in.<br />
Don’t look in.<br />
Coax loneliness out of the den. Offer it beer.<br />
It prefers milk. Ask it about the weather.<br />
It will tell you that nothing alive doesn’t burn<br />
to be touched. Even the sun.<br />
It will break your fingers
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