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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Rachel and the Seven Wonders of the World<br />
Rachel Burns<br />
From a book with my name on the cover<br />
I read about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon<br />
and I think all the stories are about me.<br />
I dream of gods and monsters and magical<br />
spirits as I sit cross legged on the floor in front<br />
of the fire. The smell of burning pine as logs<br />
smoulder on the grate. I can hear the roar<br />
of lions and feel the heat of dragon’s breath<br />
on my cheeks. My father listens to his cassettes<br />
on the old player, Richard Burton booms<br />
from the stereo, I lost my step in Nantucket<br />
Do you see me Captain? The white bone talking.<br />
My father makes supper. Every now and again<br />
I look up to watch him butter the bread<br />
then top with rings of apple, and sprinkle with sugar.<br />
He puts the sandwich down with a glass of milk<br />
at my feet. I don’t have time to eat.<br />
I read on and on, hurling myself through<br />
the beautiful tiled Ishtar Gate, into the arms<br />
of the goddess of love and war.
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