Picaroon Poetry - Issue #14 - January 2019
Hello, and welcome back to a year of Picaroon - and we're also back to our regular bi-monthly schedule for 2019. As always, there's no set theme for our issues, but also as usual, this one does have several poems that find common ground with one another. There are nods to religion, and to misogyny (against it, not for it), memories, and myth - among other things. CN/TW for sexual assault, harrassment, child abuse, verbal abuse, death. I think that's everything, but do tread carefully. Issue #14 features poetry by Sarah Davies, Chuka Susan Chesney, Mary Percy-Burns, Matt Gilbert, Isaac Stovell, Mark Rutter, Meg Gripton-Cooper, Kelli Simpson, Wanda Deglane, Tianna G Hansen, Kristin Garth, Steven Bruce, Maggie Mackay, Michael J. Galko, Yuan Changming, Tristan Moss, Betsy Housten, Gale Acuff, Olivia Tuck, Stephen Daniels, Rose Cook, Al Ortolani, Jeffrey Zable, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Elizabeth York Dickinson, Michael McGill, Bruce McRae, Kenneth Pobo, Megan Denese Mealor, Julia D McGuinness, Sue Spiers, Jackie Biggs, Gareth Writer-Davies, Charley Barnes, and Penny Blackburn. Lovingly edited by Kate Garrett (with no help at all from the cat, contrary to her being on the masthead).
Hello, and welcome back to a year of Picaroon - and we're also back to our regular bi-monthly schedule for 2019.
As always, there's no set theme for our issues, but also as usual, this one does have several poems that find common ground with one another. There are nods to religion, and to misogyny (against it, not for it), memories, and myth - among other things.
CN/TW for sexual assault, harrassment, child abuse, verbal abuse, death. I think that's everything, but do tread carefully.
Issue #14 features poetry by Sarah Davies, Chuka Susan Chesney, Mary Percy-Burns, Matt Gilbert, Isaac Stovell, Mark Rutter, Meg Gripton-Cooper, Kelli Simpson, Wanda Deglane, Tianna G Hansen, Kristin Garth, Steven Bruce, Maggie Mackay, Michael J. Galko, Yuan Changming, Tristan Moss, Betsy Housten, Gale Acuff, Olivia Tuck, Stephen Daniels, Rose Cook, Al Ortolani, Jeffrey Zable, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Elizabeth York Dickinson, Michael McGill, Bruce McRae, Kenneth Pobo, Megan Denese Mealor, Julia D McGuinness, Sue Spiers, Jackie Biggs, Gareth Writer-Davies, Charley Barnes, and Penny Blackburn.
Lovingly edited by Kate Garrett (with no help at all from the cat, contrary to her being on the masthead).
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Tristan Moss<br />
These words will never be read or even seen<br />
It saved time.<br />
The pictures and clips were better,<br />
and of course we wanted to record our lives<br />
so nearly everyone signed up.<br />
And the different networks came<br />
to install the cameras in our homes,<br />
offered coverage anywhere, anytime,<br />
offered post editing suites<br />
that could do almost anything.<br />
Soon we went about our lives<br />
oblivious to being watched,<br />
besides the occasional couple posing<br />
arm-in-arm on a mountain side,<br />
not a selfie stick in sight.<br />
Log in, enter a time<br />
and there you were<br />
and we all knew<br />
that even the worst movies<br />
could make good trailers.<br />
And those who failed to embrace<br />
this technology<br />
wasted time<br />
snapping photos, recording snippets<br />
of their lives<br />
that in comparison<br />
just looked contrived.<br />
And those of us who did neither<br />
simply disappeared<br />
from the timeline.<br />
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