Picaroon Poetry - Issue #19 - November 2019
Well here we are, rogues and rebels, readers and writers - our last issue of Picaroon until the middle of 2021. I want to thank everyone who appears in this issue - poems about busking and goats, fruitcake and pawn shops, and Christmas and ghosts and so much more - and everyone who has ever sent something our way, been published in other issues, or read what our writers have shared with you.
Well here we are, rogues and rebels, readers and writers - our last issue of Picaroon until the middle of 2021. I want to thank everyone who appears in this issue - poems about busking and goats, fruitcake and pawn shops, and Christmas and ghosts and so much more - and everyone who has ever sent something our way, been published in other issues, or read what our writers have shared with you.
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Beth Brooke<br />
Robins: a Wikipedia Entry<br />
The robin is seen as a martial bird,<br />
disputatious.<br />
It has a reputation for belligerence,<br />
being able to spark an argument<br />
in an empty tree.<br />
Its plainsong ticking<br />
asserts a right of occupancy,<br />
communicating a simple message:<br />
Off. Off. Off. Off.<br />
Its more melodic songs are<br />
variations on a single theme,<br />
which may be summarised<br />
as invitations to have a go -<br />
if you think you're hard enough.<br />
Yet when evening comes<br />
these birds are slow to roost.<br />
In the dark they are small,<br />
their dreams uneasy,<br />
troubled by visions<br />
of jabbing beaks and<br />
the fierce beating of wings<br />
in landscapes where<br />
the night is always<br />
cat-shadow black.<br />
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