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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A November Book Burning<br />
Grant Tarbard<br />
We have bare hands and<br />
don't bear arms against<br />
the burning of books,<br />
libraries of ash,<br />
ignoring rubble.<br />
You can hear the ghosts<br />
whispering in the<br />
overhanging trees,<br />
a lighthouse of blood<br />
and a songbird's sigh.<br />
Charcoal breath kernel,<br />
all the red roses<br />
are crisp, and all the<br />
pages are bred for<br />
the hand of soil that<br />
accompanies death,<br />
an embryo of<br />
dark blue light, midnight's<br />
child is made from dusk<br />
black spiders and hair<br />
clogged down the drain. The<br />
porcelain morning<br />
is a stag rutting<br />
for the attention<br />
of the bullet Moon.
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