Christoper Barnes
Christopher Barnes' first poetry collection Lovebites is published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh, price £2.40. He has a BBC webpage (click on SECTION 28). London's South Bank Centre recorded his poem "The Holiday I Never Had" - click here to hear the poem
Adhesive life particles of clones
I split hairs with him.
To speak he’s inbeing,
Natal, life-like –
I’m specimened
Not clotted skin-deep miracle-making
An ologyist’s destination.
*
He eats my words.
His legend is an atom.
Conception’s all his own.
Now or never – Narcissus –
Punctures surface friction drag
With a pebble. I’m lost in rippled clouds
But I’ll re-spectre.
*
He is not me.
Lithium-Free Therapy
The nanobot injected into the manic patient –Call it a parasol on wheels,
Furled, ready to dart
In sheer cheerlessness.
It has rights to curable aesthetics.
Wisps and rotating teeth
Power it
Through wibble-wabble membranes.
Rivets, rods, ruffles
Hinged upon spirited efficiency.
Radiance. Twinkling. Unlight –
Exuberance-bamboozling
Squishing back serotonin.
"He eats my words.
His legend is an atom.
Conception’s all his own."
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- Syringe
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- Spoorific change
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- A more interesting coat
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