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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Michele Stepto<br />
Homer Takes Notes<br />
He has to write it all up for HQ<br />
starting with what the pig looks like<br />
large black/pinkish<br />
and how it is housed<br />
lying on its bed in the living room area of the property<br />
Circe is watching over his shoulder<br />
and she tells him he’s not really a pig<br />
write that down he’s a therapy<br />
animal and he’s for my father<br />
who’s around here somewhere<br />
the bed in question is covered in something<br />
that looks like cowskin<br />
like in the window<br />
of some trendy furniture store<br />
in Brooklyn except for the pig<br />
and except for Circe<br />
who’s down there now<br />
with the pig the better<br />
to scratch him behind<br />
the ear which he seems to love<br />
he’s so affectionate she coos and<br />
was that a wink? just like<br />
a real human being she coos<br />
this time to the pig and<br />
Homer can feel the situation slipping away from him<br />
He’s not a human being he’s an even-toed ungulate<br />
he insists and strictly prohibited<br />
on this island quoting the statute<br />
and slapping the top<br />
of Circe’s TV for emphasis
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