Picaroon Poetry - Issue #10 - September 2017
We have a strange and wonderful line up for Issue #10 - including (but not limited to) smugglers, dinners, literary icons, an octopus, a tapir, pop stars, and the passage of time. Featuring poetry by Stephen Daniels, Stella Bahin, John Grey, Claire Lloyd, Lorraine Carey, Kathleen Latham, Natalie Crick, Leda Muscatello, Billy Malanga, Sarah Shirley, Pat Edwards, Monique Byro, James Croal Jackson, D. Dallas, Neil Fulwood, Howie Good, Michele Stepto, Tristan Moss, Joe Cottonwood, S.E. Acton, Brett Evans, Samuel Kendall, Philip Flynn, Belinda Rimmer, J.A. Sutherland, Kathleen Strafford, Catriona Yule, Patricia Walsh, Nick Romeo, J.P. Bohannon, and Hannah Stone. Enjoy!
We have a strange and wonderful line up for Issue #10 - including (but not limited to) smugglers, dinners, literary icons, an octopus, a tapir, pop stars, and the passage of time.
Featuring poetry by Stephen Daniels, Stella Bahin, John Grey, Claire Lloyd, Lorraine Carey, Kathleen Latham, Natalie Crick, Leda Muscatello, Billy Malanga, Sarah Shirley, Pat Edwards, Monique Byro, James Croal Jackson, D. Dallas, Neil Fulwood, Howie Good, Michele Stepto, Tristan Moss, Joe Cottonwood, S.E. Acton, Brett Evans, Samuel Kendall, Philip Flynn, Belinda Rimmer, J.A. Sutherland, Kathleen Strafford, Catriona Yule, Patricia Walsh, Nick Romeo, J.P. Bohannon, and Hannah Stone.
Enjoy!
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Natalie Crick<br />
Girl in the Cornfield<br />
He goes for days without<br />
Seeing a soul.<br />
It’s cold out,<br />
And getting dark.<br />
One of the children is a girl,<br />
Untouched as the field she stands in.<br />
Her skirt lifts mid-calf in the breeze,<br />
One hand holding out for his like<br />
A flower curling out from a stone,<br />
Turned into nothingness.<br />
The purple sky violated by orange<br />
Weeps over the creek,<br />
Shaming the white of her body with<br />
A ghostly stain.<br />
The old farm stands like<br />
A woman unwilling to give in,<br />
Cradled by the hill.<br />
She is alone<br />
On the fading road,<br />
Her exposed neck swan-like.<br />
The dried bone is so pale<br />
It blushes blue.
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