Picaroon Poetry - Issue #2 - May 2016
Welcome to our second issue of Picaroon Poetry, where we have sideshows and mussels, taxidermy, the many facets of aging, ancient history and current political commentary (albeit in an eerie, off-kilter setting). Featuring work by Mark J. Mitchell, Angela Croft, Stephen Bone, Kiley Creekmore, Beth McDonough, Demi Cybulski, Kymm Coveney, Kate Hodges, Hilary Hares, Finola Scott, Carol Gloor, Charles W. Brice, AE Stueve, Stephen Daniels, Jovan Jakic, Pru Kitching, Mab Jones, Mary Imo-Stike, Holly Magill, Marilyn Francis, Joanne Key, Faye Boland, Laurie Kolp, Bethany Rivers, and Broc Riblet.
Welcome to our second issue of Picaroon Poetry, where we have sideshows and mussels, taxidermy, the many facets of aging, ancient history and current political commentary (albeit in an eerie, off-kilter setting).
Featuring work by Mark J. Mitchell, Angela Croft, Stephen Bone, Kiley Creekmore, Beth McDonough, Demi Cybulski, Kymm Coveney, Kate Hodges, Hilary Hares, Finola Scott, Carol Gloor, Charles W. Brice, AE Stueve, Stephen Daniels, Jovan Jakic, Pru Kitching, Mab Jones, Mary Imo-Stike, Holly Magill, Marilyn Francis, Joanne Key, Faye Boland, Laurie Kolp, Bethany Rivers, and Broc Riblet.
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Boudicca in Bedford Square<br />
Marilyn Francis<br />
There was this girl<br />
she was always going ‘down the Roman’<br />
Saturdays.<br />
Other times she worked up West<br />
messengering papers between the houses<br />
and cobbled-together offices of Bedford Square.<br />
I knew her for a while<br />
when Bow and Roman Road<br />
seemed so authentic, so romantic<br />
the market stink, Kelly’s pie and mash<br />
the horror of green liquor. A real<br />
kitchen sink drama in production.<br />
This girl, she never felt cold.<br />
Even when it was taters, brass monkeys<br />
she’d saunter about in her cotton frock<br />
as if it was springtime. That girl, she had red hair<br />
and a fuck-you look in her eyes. I bet she went<br />
‘down the Roman’ in a chariot.
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