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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Matt Duggan<br />
The Hunger<br />
All that’s left are the berry pickers<br />
the foxes have gone – magpies have flown far from the storm;<br />
We watched children throwing stones at drones<br />
that hovered above council estates,<br />
Waiting for that interlude – the lightness –<br />
a symphony we can’t hear. Stomach is brimming<br />
tight muscles can’t clench wilderness not reached –<br />
We draw this hunger in pencil across a sky in dark velvet;<br />
walk among dunes of concrete where fumes fill a green arena;<br />
Our sanity disturbs this restless hunger as we devour colours and textures<br />
seeking images that tempt our throats; waiting for that interlude – the lightness – the break.<br />
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