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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Desert Island Things<br />
Marilyn Hammick<br />
to view, not to use<br />
A felt coaster for the taste of sunrise Guatemala,<br />
afternoon Earl Grey, sunset Château Ausone.<br />
That length of dowel left lying around for years<br />
to conduct Bach, Beethoven and Basie.<br />
One seam ripper, blunt enough to undo most<br />
relationships and leave the fabric intact.<br />
My Dad’s bradawl, from his Dad, to recall<br />
the holes in the spaces between the lines.<br />
A chipped soap dish for moments that slid<br />
through my fingers, through lack of attention.<br />
Red Cross Charity bookmarks to indicate<br />
where words leaked into the page margin.<br />
A slide rule with all its dust so once again<br />
I can forget why logarithms are important.<br />
One candle holder splattered with wax<br />
to understand the ragged scar.
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