Picaroon Poetry - Issue #13 - September 2018
This issue features work by Sue Kindon, Marc Frazier, Attracta Fahy, Darren C. Demaree, Anne Babson, Kevin Reid, Karen Little, Rachel Burns, Louise Wilford, Marne Wilson, Linda Stevenson, Kelli Simpson, Emma Lee, Ben Banyard, Bethany W Pope, Kristin Garth, Jared Pearce, Sally Kidd, Sophie Petrie, Thomas Tyrrell, Jude Cowan Montague, MiRo, Darrell Petska, David Linklater, Douglas Cole, Kasey Shelley, Pru Bankes Price, Cara L McKee, Tobi Alfier, Bekah Steimel, Michelle Hartman. The cover art is 'Scary Baby', a mixed media piece by Chuka Susan Chesney.
This issue features work by Sue Kindon, Marc Frazier, Attracta Fahy, Darren C. Demaree, Anne Babson, Kevin Reid, Karen Little, Rachel Burns, Louise Wilford, Marne Wilson, Linda Stevenson, Kelli Simpson, Emma Lee, Ben Banyard, Bethany W Pope, Kristin Garth, Jared Pearce, Sally Kidd, Sophie Petrie, Thomas Tyrrell, Jude Cowan Montague, MiRo, Darrell Petska, David Linklater, Douglas Cole, Kasey Shelley, Pru Bankes Price, Cara L McKee, Tobi Alfier, Bekah Steimel, Michelle Hartman. The cover art is 'Scary Baby', a mixed media piece by Chuka Susan Chesney.
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Tobi Alfier<br />
Out of My League in Honfleur<br />
Try as I might, I’m tainted,<br />
shamefaced and lowbrow,<br />
a face at the window<br />
that leans into absence.<br />
I contemplate the blue/gray<br />
of enamel sky, compare<br />
it to the bleu-noir of the rented<br />
room, I turn numb,<br />
follow a trail made of instinct.<br />
Lacking in grace. I’ve drifted<br />
far out of my league,<br />
I am the late snow’s thickening<br />
silence, the tick of a metronome<br />
behind walls crackled with time.<br />
I need a belt of something<br />
ill-advised, and a man to drink with me.<br />
Dump those dying wildflowers out<br />
of the jar and pour. Don’t claim<br />
my icy words are foreign, warm my<br />
non-drinking wrist with your breath.<br />
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