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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electrocuting sea slugs<br />
James Bell<br />
remember when we did it –<br />
the set up the organisation was immense<br />
each only with twenty thousand neurons<br />
at a millimetre diameter makes them big<br />
doo-doo<br />
hard to miss<br />
strands thick as a high E guitar string<br />
ugly creatures of bulk<br />
though tuned by their synapses for a floppier purpose –<br />
question mark cerebral cortex<br />
of which primates have with neurons in their billions –<br />
hard to see even if you lose a few<br />
to bacchanalian delights –<br />
no animal rights types protested –<br />
much easier than monkeys –<br />
an experiment to test for memory<br />
wasn’t it –<br />
I’d forgotten about that until now
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