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Christopher Barnes, UK
 

 

 

 

Free Verse

 

Self-Preservation

 

Seranading is a tone.
Ding-dong onslaughts
can be hustled with the forearm,
a skin-edged took - thwack—
impregnable sweeps
should be bickered to finish
jaw, throat, side-skid of neck.

 

 

Syringe...

 

or misrelated spermary.
Nurse Slipfinger
fumbles the buffer with DNA.
A scrotum blast re-tossed
from the dummy prick.
Gunless is his holster.
Her fertile-fancies loining
a plastic-prostate boy
who fistful-jerked the morning
- daddy's grinning Action Man.

 

 

In A Little Pond

 

Our steps are legion
—intractable shoes prowl.
Rumbles and dumbshow arms
discriminate, an over-ridden lead.

Us, muffling thrill-stirring
under facial counter-streams,
collapse on war whoops
in foregrounding scenes.

This love was always a battle tango,
a cargo-shaft of gunpowdered hope.

 

 

The Play

 

On stage they were bulrushes
hair-splitting illusionists,
a twitter was realised,
swivelling owl-light eyes
trimming faces with bonnets.

But the fill-the-bill incident
was that fever of lust on us...

...rose bed and velvet plaints
insinuated into abrupt hum-notes.

The balcony tiresomes threw wrinkled necks,
sat up.

 

 

Gone Tomorrow

 

Outriding the come-to moon.

Assume we'd gullibly ride.
A glow on your skin.
Neighbourhood shadows.

This wasn't queening it
but visceral enough.

Tolstoy couldn't tame that.
Falling out. Short cuts.
I'll reminisce. A thistle-down breeze.
"I do," I said, "I do".

 

 

Don't Make Good

 

Insist on identity. Short-memory.
You're a serpent's fizzle
crunched into a bagpipe,
out-of-whack
in the realm
of the dismal.

I swell. Your gist's at finger-ends.
Fidelity? Shoulders taken aback.
I'll dodge along
with anyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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