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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[Jennifer Walks the River]<br />
Mary Stone<br />
The meth reminds her to hem her skirt,<br />
that her skin is like the moon<br />
in November when all the men go outside<br />
and wait on their porches for a leisurely frost.<br />
The men with belts and buckles and tattoos,<br />
who fight wasps deep into the winter<br />
to show her what they are willing to lose<br />
for her pain. She heads to 8 th Street<br />
where brick rots, where the river<br />
reclaims its ruin. Sometimes her body<br />
remembers the sky at dawn, but mostly<br />
remembers men reaching for her<br />
from the fires, the swirl of dead fish<br />
rotting in her hands, her numb lips.<br />
The mist of the river tastes of blood and semen.<br />
At the dock the men appear,<br />
waving and holding onto their hats.<br />
She can see the wind, palms its song<br />
when she finds a lone penny<br />
and pretends she is home.
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