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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Crystal Anderson<br />
Soushoku-kei Danshi (Herbivore Men)<br />
Your fantastic house plants succeed,<br />
form a least demanding ecosystem<br />
against your solo back; expectation<br />
(like sloughing skin<br />
from apple meat)<br />
casts a wide orbit around traditional time<br />
sinks. You escape the pull of gravity by scaling<br />
honeysuckle on urban trees that struggle with their workloads<br />
(exhaust sags their frames like afterglow salarymen);<br />
respiration without surgical mask protection.<br />
You like the gentle demarcation of that sterile cloth<br />
stretched between yourself and konkatsu (exploration of pure<br />
flowers; the heaven, the earth, the human),<br />
kampai!, ferris wheel, procession (pictorial<br />
occasions displayed in an alcove). You like the<br />
openness<br />
in (eating cellulose) reframing disappointment<br />
with indifferent stems so there is no koibito<br />
aggression and that is fine<br />
because ohitorisama<br />
is not a provocative word.<br />
Reclaimed carbon dioxide<br />
(the sun, the water,<br />
the photosynthesis, the cascade mist<br />
droplets on leaves and nomikai beer)<br />
will ask you for nothing more.<br />
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