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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John Leo<br />
The Night Before I Leave<br />
we collect<br />
behind the back window<br />
to watch wolves<br />
bloom like nightlilies<br />
they arrive to feed on our chickens<br />
a hen screams like a mule<br />
there has never been a moon<br />
only the light by which we fail<br />
tonight my teeth glow<br />
I capture will-o-the-wisp behind blue teeth<br />
the wolves mutter between chickenribs<br />
one howl shrugged into meat<br />
another comes as close as the porch<br />
stares through the screen door<br />
as if asking “do you think we're safe here?”<br />
“do you believe home is where the heart is?<br />
do you think we can carry so much within us<br />
or do we have to have a place, a cave or hollow<br />
Do you write<br />
so you don't have to leave?”<br />
he does not look back<br />
the pack vanishes<br />
where we store our favorite skulls and apologies?<br />
is that why you're like this, poet?<br />
he circles our favorite tree<br />
bottlebrush tail on bark<br />
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