Picaroon Poetry - Issue #6 - January 2017
This issue has quite the mix of voices, from adorably sinister to tenderly brutal, deadly serious to charmingly irreverent, and everything in between. Featuring work by Peycho Kanev, Karen Little, Stephen Nelson, Mike Jewett, Belinda Rimmer, Lizzie Holden, Darren C. Demaree, Wren Tuatha, Uma Dwivedi, Mark J. Mitchell, Chris Hardy, Seth Jani, Elizabeth Gibson, Harry Gallagher, Bobbie Sparrow, Stephen Daniels, Kitty Coles, Gareth Writer-Davies, Michael Albright, Richard King Perkins II, Tonya Eberhard, Ann Howells, James Bell, Paul Vaughan, Larry O. Dean, Shadwell Smith, and Rex Davies.
This issue has quite the mix of voices, from adorably sinister to tenderly brutal, deadly serious to charmingly irreverent, and everything in between.
Featuring work by Peycho Kanev, Karen Little, Stephen Nelson, Mike Jewett, Belinda Rimmer, Lizzie Holden, Darren C. Demaree, Wren Tuatha, Uma Dwivedi, Mark J. Mitchell, Chris Hardy, Seth Jani, Elizabeth Gibson, Harry Gallagher, Bobbie Sparrow, Stephen Daniels, Kitty Coles, Gareth Writer-Davies, Michael Albright, Richard King Perkins II, Tonya Eberhard, Ann Howells, James Bell, Paul Vaughan, Larry O. Dean, Shadwell Smith, and Rex Davies.
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The Gentle Art of Moving On<br />
Stephen Nelson<br />
Chopped nuts make my cheeks swell and I’m tender-tongued in the morning,<br />
resetting myself to the plastic art of living. Grey yellow dreams of ice cream<br />
melt into the sheets, easily recollected on a particular flavour of thought.<br />
Our eyes lock in a café over waffles, tongues of love licking up me like tasting<br />
sundaes as a child and listening to Blondie sing Atomic. The first bite<br />
vanishes you, and you’re on the streets again, handing a beggar a fiver for junk<br />
as Cassandra passes and remembers her father and the dream of the sun<br />
setting over the Firth while she sucks a hazelnut Cornetto. Her peach-pink cheeks<br />
are aflame, speaking French to a Corsican refugee before the President resigns<br />
and Crimea burns red like cherries. One world ends and another begins.<br />
At night I find her closer than you, reading a book about hidden lunar bases,<br />
a safety net of cocoa and marshmallows balancing edgily on the puffed out bed.
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