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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.

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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."