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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Sarah Davies<br />
An example of conceptual art<br />
In the cool white of the gallery,<br />
There's a sign with Exit and a running man<br />
But the rectangle of the door is painted over<br />
almost to vanishing, with white emulsion<br />
There's a door shape, but no handle,<br />
You could hardly say it was an exit at all<br />
In fact perhaps it's just an artwork.<br />
Perhaps behind it, is just white wall.<br />
Either way, as doorway or as art<br />
I'm not sure it works. I've tried<br />
Just thinking about it as a symbol<br />
Or a comment on something<br />
Or a metaphor.<br />
I've tried thinking about it as a botched idea<br />
Mainly though, it's a question<br />
and I won't break my blue nails<br />
Trying with my fingers to cram them<br />
Between door and jamb<br />
To open, answer it<br />
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