Picaroon Poetry - Issue #1 - March 2016
Picaroon Poetry is a new web journal for rogue poems. Issue #1 includes work by Orooj-e-Zafar, iDrew, Shane Vaughan, David Spicer, Susan Castillo Street, Neil Fulwood, Brett Evans, Amy Kinsman, Dean Rhetoric, Johanna Boal, Carole Bromley, Alyson Miller, Robert Crisp, Chris Hemingway, Rachel Nix, Jennifer A. McGowan, Bethany W Pope, Grant Tarbard, Hannah Pyne, Marilyn Hammick, and Mary Stone.
Picaroon Poetry is a new web journal for rogue poems.
Issue #1 includes work by Orooj-e-Zafar, iDrew, Shane Vaughan, David Spicer, Susan Castillo Street, Neil Fulwood, Brett Evans, Amy Kinsman, Dean Rhetoric, Johanna Boal, Carole Bromley, Alyson Miller, Robert Crisp, Chris Hemingway, Rachel Nix, Jennifer A. McGowan, Bethany W Pope, Grant Tarbard, Hannah Pyne, Marilyn Hammick, and Mary Stone.
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My Mother the Barmaid Never Said<br />
There’d be Nights Like This<br />
Brett Evans<br />
It’s nights like this you expect that heart attack,<br />
as pipes announce the lungs of the house collapsed.<br />
The body shakes and sweats and sweats and shits,<br />
trumping Christ – your skidded Turin sheets.<br />
Busy as the arse has been, the brain reflects<br />
on friends, drink, individual lovers, then sex;<br />
the need for skin on skin, a tattooed shoulder.<br />
Your own breast tightens, heartbeats may go no further.<br />
Your ‘fuck-it list’ completed, but now you’re dead<br />
eternity won’t bring one hour of Bessie Smith,<br />
Sweet Emma Barrett, or Tampa Red.
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