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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Re: “Find what you love and let it kill<br />
you.”<br />
Orooj-e-Zafar<br />
I will find what I love<br />
and let it play hopscotch on the midline cliffs<br />
of my vertebrae; I will let it turn around<br />
to my front and slide down my tailbone<br />
so it has lived like a child<br />
before it sheds memories in the shape<br />
of victories feeling like anything but.<br />
I will find what I love and let it decide<br />
how long her braids must fall and where<br />
his ankles need to be fastened to his sneakers;<br />
I can wait till both their rabbit ears<br />
find their looping better halves.<br />
I will find what I love and let it breathe<br />
before I can admit the full deficit of my proprioception<br />
and the terms I made with it. I will let it live,<br />
expel,<br />
return<br />
and then surrender<br />
just until its admission leaks onto its lying lips,<br />
“I have wanted to end you,” as if the shock<br />
will shift my tectonic paradigm.<br />
I will roll pebbles onto my back for it and whisper,<br />
before the waves wax and wane to their end:<br />
“Loving is consuming in the way fire makes<br />
bodies fly. Watch how you made me soar,<br />
watch how we have lived,<br />
watch how we have grown,<br />
and let go.”