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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Sue Kindon<br />
Plague<br />
The inner sill is deep with ladybirds,<br />
dead ones you can sweep into a dustpan,<br />
or clinging on, wings half open,<br />
a horde of fading hopes to harden in the bin.<br />
Broken, they smell of bitter leaves,<br />
nasturtium, like a house on fire.<br />
How did they get in through double glazing?<br />
This has been going on for days, weeks, I forget.<br />
I can't extinguish tiny carcases,<br />
the dottiness of blackened spots en masse.<br />
My children flew the nest ages ago.<br />
They never lived in this place<br />
with its crematorium view.<br />
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