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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Scarring<br />
Jennifer A. McGowan<br />
The slice through clean skin:<br />
rivulets of red, your favourite colour,<br />
branch over my chest in<br />
echoes of your fingertips. Severed<br />
nerves go into shock; pain and<br />
tears will come later, and will<br />
pass. It’s absence I can’t bear,<br />
the whiteness of lack. You will<br />
make your mark. I reach into<br />
the urn, pull out a handful of<br />
grey, rub it into the cut.