Picaroon Poetry - Issue #16 - May 2019
Featuring work by Dave Stacey, John Short, Bethany W Pope, Steve Xerri, Judith Kingston, Jules Elleo, Tim Taylor, Sam Rose, meeah williams, Elijah Welter, Matt Nicholson, Paul Vaughan, Brittany Atkinson, Rupert Locke, Robert Ford, DS Maolalai, Rosie Barrett, John Dorroh, Stefanie Bennett, Pat Edwards, Jenna Velez, Cara L McKee, Beth O'Brien, Holly Day, Clive Donovan, John Leo, Richard Livermore, Sam Grudgings, Dan Cardoza, Mark Lee, Ronny Ford, Julie Sampson, Darren C Demaree, Stephen Bone, Marcus Severns, and Joe Williams. Picaroon is, as ever, lovingly edited by Kate Garrett.
Featuring work by Dave Stacey, John Short, Bethany W Pope, Steve Xerri, Judith Kingston, Jules Elleo, Tim Taylor, Sam Rose, meeah williams, Elijah Welter, Matt Nicholson, Paul Vaughan, Brittany Atkinson, Rupert Locke, Robert Ford, DS Maolalai, Rosie Barrett, John Dorroh, Stefanie Bennett, Pat Edwards, Jenna Velez, Cara L McKee, Beth O'Brien, Holly Day, Clive Donovan, John Leo, Richard Livermore, Sam Grudgings, Dan Cardoza, Mark Lee, Ronny Ford, Julie Sampson, Darren C Demaree, Stephen Bone, Marcus Severns, and Joe Williams.
Picaroon is, as ever, lovingly edited by Kate Garrett.
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Brittany Atkinson<br />
Us, a Pitless Peach<br />
Our conversations:<br />
teeth grinding in<br />
a blender, a callus<br />
peeled back, a blister<br />
needing cleaned.<br />
We showered<br />
together<br />
for the first time<br />
(clothed). We lived<br />
together eight years<br />
closed under business<br />
suits ties collared shirts<br />
blazers: even onions<br />
only have so many<br />
layers before nothing<br />
is left but an empty<br />
center. Filling our<br />
dinners with<br />
clinking silverware,<br />
hollow cups, jaws<br />
oscillating up and down,<br />
deconstructing meals made<br />
by neither of our hands.<br />
It is rude to chew<br />
with mouths open, rude<br />
to talk over each other:<br />
silence interrupted with<br />
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