Picaroon - Issue #15 - March 2019
It's Picaroon's third birthday this month! And we have an issue packed full of riffs on dreams, death, philosophy, doom and assorted other themes you've come to expect from Picaroon over the past three years. Featuring work by Rosie Garland, David Wyman, Isaac Stovell, Deb Scudder, Thomas Tyrrell, Emily Strauss, Daniel Paul Marshall, Pam Thompson, Mark J. Mitchell, Betsy Housten, Courtenay S. Gray, Aytan Laleh, Matt Gilbert, James Croal Jackson, Lucy Dixcart, Louisa Campbell, Peter Clive, Jonel Abellanosa, Matt Duggan, Rupert Locke, Sanjeev Sethi, Howie Good, Spangle McQueen, Ron Riekki, Frederick Pollack, Rus Khomutoff, Mistress Chardonnay, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Andie Berryman, Charley Barnes, Lisa Stice, Maxine Rose Munro, Chris Hardy, Amy Soricelli, Victoria Nordlund, and John Leo.
It's Picaroon's third birthday this month! And we have an issue packed full of riffs on dreams, death, philosophy, doom and assorted other themes you've come to expect from Picaroon over the past three years.
Featuring work by Rosie Garland, David Wyman, Isaac Stovell, Deb Scudder, Thomas Tyrrell, Emily Strauss, Daniel Paul Marshall, Pam Thompson, Mark J. Mitchell, Betsy Housten, Courtenay S. Gray, Aytan Laleh, Matt Gilbert, James Croal Jackson, Lucy Dixcart, Louisa Campbell, Peter Clive, Jonel Abellanosa, Matt Duggan, Rupert Locke, Sanjeev Sethi, Howie Good, Spangle McQueen, Ron Riekki, Frederick Pollack, Rus Khomutoff, Mistress Chardonnay, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Andie Berryman, Charley Barnes, Lisa Stice, Maxine Rose Munro, Chris Hardy, Amy Soricelli, Victoria Nordlund, and John Leo.
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Lucy Dixcart<br />
The golden cage<br />
I spend my days at an office where<br />
I file things alphabetically<br />
and print things surreptitiously.<br />
Our garden is a wilderness where<br />
I dig, overturning strange grubs,<br />
and bury my hands in knobbly roots.<br />
I go to writing workshops where<br />
I peel off pieces of myself for others to judge.<br />
I never go for drinks after.<br />
My favourite place to write is perched on a stone slab where<br />
Romans once bathed. Steam curls from green water.<br />
Sometimes tourists sneak a photo.<br />
Walking home, I pause where<br />
Georgian crescents shine with outstretched arms.<br />
The smell of weed lingers in invisible pockets.<br />
“Don’t stay here too long,”<br />
my boss advises. “It’s where<br />
ambition comes to die.”<br />
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