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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Jenna Velez<br />
american heathen<br />
American heathen<br />
She’s disgusting<br />
With ivory fangs<br />
Melts the metal down<br />
From gemstone Jesus<br />
Builds her altars<br />
For the humanity she lost<br />
To God-fearing men<br />
She loves her seafaring gods<br />
American heathen<br />
Curses the soot off her cheek<br />
From the fire where she burned alive<br />
She’s holy<br />
With gold jewelry<br />
A priestess to the pyre<br />
To the ember and amber<br />
Prisoner moth in resin flames<br />
American heathen<br />
Cuts out a blue eye<br />
From folkish faces<br />
She’s tricky<br />
With a riddled tongue<br />
Casting runes with the<br />
Ruins of a man’s body<br />
That claimed her as a<br />
Star-spangled sacrifice<br />
Blood, white, and blue on the drinking horn<br />
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