Picaroon Poetry - Issue #17 - July 2019
Featuring poetry by Sharon Phillips, Peter Burrows, Kitty Coles, alyssa hanna, Crystal Anderson, John L. Stanizzi, Chris Hemingway, Sue Kindon, Kathleen Strafford, Jenna Velez, Maureen Daniels, Samuel Guest, Charlie Hill, John Son, Beth Bayley, Visar, Bethany W Pope, Luke Kuzmish, Gerard Sarnat, Chris Hardy, Erik Fuhrer, Christopher Hopkins, John Raffetto, Andrew Shields, Bo Meson, Brian Comber, Martin Zarrop, Kristin Garth, Maiya Dambawinna, David Bankson, Jeffrey Zable, Rickey Rivers Jr, Anthony Watts, Donna Dallas, Chuka Susan Chesney, and Tobi Alfier. Picaroon is, as always, lovingly edited by Kate Garrett.
Featuring poetry by Sharon Phillips, Peter Burrows, Kitty Coles, alyssa hanna, Crystal Anderson, John L. Stanizzi, Chris Hemingway, Sue Kindon, Kathleen Strafford, Jenna Velez, Maureen Daniels, Samuel Guest, Charlie Hill, John Son, Beth Bayley, Visar, Bethany W Pope, Luke Kuzmish, Gerard Sarnat, Chris Hardy, Erik Fuhrer, Christopher Hopkins, John Raffetto, Andrew Shields, Bo Meson, Brian Comber, Martin Zarrop, Kristin Garth, Maiya Dambawinna, David Bankson, Jeffrey Zable, Rickey Rivers Jr, Anthony Watts, Donna Dallas, Chuka Susan Chesney, and Tobi Alfier.
Picaroon is, as always, lovingly edited by Kate Garrett.
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alyssa hanna<br />
ars poetica from the bottom of the ocean<br />
more than anything, i want to be a multitude of stimuli,<br />
energy flowing flora and turquoise and tidal,<br />
ocean<br />
rescuing the fear of sharks and jellyfish from<br />
the forces we forgot. i received a thanks for<br />
curating a museum<br />
of dewdrop—<br />
she told me i made her feel less alone.<br />
urn-kept, her mother agrees, sends me flowers that i<br />
really wonder if i deserve.<br />
i want to shake senses<br />
but who am i to start earthquakes?<br />
i will never know if the seafloor can<br />
recover from more eruptions, but the acrylic<br />
in my blood<br />
yearns, tells me i must help her heal, attempt to soothe<br />
every woman’s old wounds. if my words, my paintings<br />
are bandages, can i keep the earth<br />
from bleeding out?<br />
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