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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Kristin Garth<br />
Captives<br />
Unlike you, Colossus was born free, months<br />
old taken, forest to captivity,<br />
New Hampshire caged, first, watched TV. Now grunts<br />
at you, in Florida, field trip, fifteen,<br />
schoolgirl, flared dress, against impact resistant glass —<br />
six hundred pounds, his punch — retreat fast. Hear<br />
docent remit biography — wild grass,<br />
good genes, Gulf Breeze to breed. “Confusion, fear.<br />
Forgotten gorilla ways.” Teen tears, beast bounds<br />
then squints sideways, sovereign staring into<br />
you; chest heaving in his concrete compound<br />
reminds cowering schoolgirl captive who<br />
was born to your abusive family:<br />
freedom is strength, even the memory.<br />
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