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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Tangle<br />
Belinda Rimmer<br />
My father’s old donkey jacket,<br />
cement dusted, jaggy edged.<br />
I can picture him in it,<br />
collar turned up against the cold,<br />
off to the pub for a few pints<br />
and a game of darts.<br />
On days when his moods hung in the air<br />
or smashed bottles littered the linoleum<br />
I’d hide inside his jacket,<br />
breathe in the smell of cigar.<br />
Sometimes I’d wish for a different father.<br />
On me, the jacket is still ten sizes too big.<br />
I plunge my hands into its pockets,<br />
imagine my father’s hands<br />
pushing up through the lining.<br />
Our tangle of fingers and thumbs.<br />
Pitching around, I find a clump of my baby hair.<br />
I wonder what else of me my father kept back.
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