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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J.A. Sutherland<br />
Olivia’s Violin<br />
Her viola was her best friend,<br />
but the violin, her lover.<br />
Even warming-up, she’d make it crackle;<br />
arpeggios would dance and sparkle<br />
and scales sent fireworks from the bow<br />
while I would sit, redundant as an old flame<br />
or an extinguished candle.<br />
My heart would dance to hear her Czardas;<br />
The Kreuzer nearly crucified me,<br />
and the Bruch I could barely handle.<br />
A quartet I could cope with well,<br />
and quintets – Schubert’s Die Forelle.<br />
Anything with two violas was no trouble.<br />
But I couldn’t hack watching her duet,<br />
especially the ‘Bach Double’.<br />
Both violinists swooned and swooped,<br />
swapping melodies like sexual favours;<br />
a passionate embrace, a kiss, flirtatious<br />
harmonies and casual conversations.<br />
I swore she was in love with him<br />
and not seducing that belovéd violin.
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