Picaroon Poetry - Issue #8 - May 2017
In this issue, we have conflict, infidelity, introspection, death, and all of the other finer things in life - and, really, what more do you want from a poetry journal? Happy reading! Features work by Arushi Singh, Laura Enright, Kathleen Latham, Spencer Folkins, Neil Fulwood, Joe Williams, Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon, Monique Byro, Mat Gould, Andie Berryman, Mark Young, David Subacchi, Sarah Doyle, Miki Byrne, Grant Tarbard, Violet Dahl, anggo genorga, Sharon Larkin, Lyndi Bell O'Laughlin, Noel Williams, Penny Sharman, Nicky Phillips, Sheikha A., Lesley Quayle, Michael Marrotti, Michèle Alter Brenton, Robert Nisbet, and Barry Fentiman Hall.
In this issue, we have conflict, infidelity, introspection, death, and all of the other finer things in life - and, really, what more do you want from a poetry journal? Happy reading! Features work by Arushi Singh, Laura Enright, Kathleen Latham, Spencer Folkins, Neil Fulwood, Joe Williams, Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon, Monique Byro, Mat Gould, Andie Berryman, Mark Young, David Subacchi, Sarah Doyle, Miki Byrne, Grant Tarbard, Violet Dahl, anggo genorga, Sharon Larkin, Lyndi Bell O'Laughlin, Noel Williams, Penny Sharman, Nicky Phillips, Sheikha A., Lesley Quayle, Michael Marrotti, Michèle Alter Brenton, Robert Nisbet, and Barry Fentiman Hall.
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Aromatic Kitchen<br />
Penny Sharman<br />
Mother goose, white lady has turned up the heat in this room,<br />
so keep your shades on or the fire will sweep you off the floor.<br />
There are three heads of garlic placed at intervals on the circle,<br />
backwards writing, spoons, knives, a bowl of water a rolling pin,<br />
and someone’s pointing the finger or waving a wand. It’s a fairy dance,<br />
a ballet of silk satin shoes, transcendence around the Comal. There’s always<br />
some meaning in how you were birthed, your blood, flesh and bone, like a<br />
stew, a fine dining of you, the preparation of the hearth, hub of creation,<br />
the feast of you, the cabbage, carrot, aubergine, corn peppers, the chillies<br />
the vessel of you. You must resist the temptation to taste the banquet<br />
in the fiery kitchen, Mother goose, white lady has turned up the heat in<br />
this room.
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