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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Leona and Keats<br />
David Spicer<br />
My girlfriend Leona was so obsessed<br />
with Keats she wrote her thesis<br />
on the probability of his tasting<br />
watermelon and wearing suede jackets.<br />
Memorized all of his poems and composed<br />
the answers for the Keats category<br />
on Jeopardy. She never received<br />
a doctorate because she ignored<br />
her questioners, failed to referee herself.<br />
I couldn’t stomach them so I scrambled<br />
out of there, she told me. Later a model<br />
for shampoo and crocodile bags,<br />
she wrote guidebooks to the prettiest<br />
palm trees in California. She encouraged<br />
me to construct parables, purge demons,<br />
and worship forefathers. Listen, history<br />
is a convoy of dump trucks driving over<br />
a succession of manholes, she told me<br />
one day with a bounce in her glazed voice.<br />
She laughed at my droopy eyes. By the way,<br />
I’m leaving. That woke me up. I suddenly<br />
realized nobody can replace Keats, so I’m<br />
going to visit his grave and sleep on it.
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