Picaroon Poetry - Issue #1 - March 2016
Picaroon Poetry is a new web journal for rogue poems. Issue #1 includes work by Orooj-e-Zafar, iDrew, Shane Vaughan, David Spicer, Susan Castillo Street, Neil Fulwood, Brett Evans, Amy Kinsman, Dean Rhetoric, Johanna Boal, Carole Bromley, Alyson Miller, Robert Crisp, Chris Hemingway, Rachel Nix, Jennifer A. McGowan, Bethany W Pope, Grant Tarbard, Hannah Pyne, Marilyn Hammick, and Mary Stone.
Picaroon Poetry is a new web journal for rogue poems.
Issue #1 includes work by Orooj-e-Zafar, iDrew, Shane Vaughan, David Spicer, Susan Castillo Street, Neil Fulwood, Brett Evans, Amy Kinsman, Dean Rhetoric, Johanna Boal, Carole Bromley, Alyson Miller, Robert Crisp, Chris Hemingway, Rachel Nix, Jennifer A. McGowan, Bethany W Pope, Grant Tarbard, Hannah Pyne, Marilyn Hammick, and Mary Stone.
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her body bent first in supplication, then in prayer;<br />
the closing of thumb and forefinger<br />
around my throat,<br />
holding all the words in me.<br />
We are not who we were four years ago,<br />
of course we were less then,<br />
and he would not have dreamt of the graphs<br />
his fingers are tracing over the skin of my back<br />
nor I the equal of the scar<br />
on the right hand side of his abdomen.<br />
I hope he will remember my name<br />
if only for the algebra of it<br />
that differentiates down to a three and a two<br />
the way he becomes an infinity<br />
nailed sideways to a half-closed door.<br />
He says he will be back<br />
but I’m not sure he means it.<br />
Fermat’s Last Theorem<br />
for men and women:<br />
the calculation works<br />
but for what reason?<br />
Later,<br />
counting on my fingers<br />
like I’m a child again,<br />
I realise my maths is wrong<br />
and, as always, I have lost one.<br />
He is Boy #9.
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