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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Mistress Chardonnay<br />
Leather Red Riding Boots<br />
Once upon a time<br />
Life was pure and chaste<br />
She was as unblemished as white lace.<br />
Immaculate. That innocent, fragile girl was<br />
milk and sugar.<br />
She stayed on that fragrant, rose-laden path<br />
untouched, unbroken.<br />
With her silver laugh and liquid blonde curls<br />
she carried<br />
a light wicker basket<br />
filled to the brim with<br />
sweet cakes and ruby red wine.<br />
She tasted temptation;<br />
She never looked back.<br />
Sweetness married sour<br />
Adulthood tainted purity.<br />
She began to dress in red and black.<br />
Curiosity seethed inside<br />
the dark depths of her soul.<br />
The young woman indulged in the carnal<br />
a resurfaced beauty.<br />
Her days were spent in glistening sheets<br />
women and men<br />
could not resist<br />
her signature amber locks<br />
and her tantalizing, honeyed offerings.<br />
Dominant and unrelenting<br />
Lovers kneeled at her feet.<br />
Leather Red Riding Boots<br />
gains pleasure from pain.<br />
No longer dainty and soft for<br />
all little girls must grow up.<br />
With lurid lacquer lips, she conducts<br />
the intricate teasing and taunting of<br />
eager men.<br />
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