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Friday 20 April 2012

Christopher Barnes-

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Electrode is to calf
As megapixel is to eye,
A painstaking transformer.
Purple-mould injuries bludgeon the head
-          Always this demonstrative shot.
The footsteps of your legend
Is ruinous.  Fuse-blowing vital chunks,
Alternating current hurled hangmen
Into regenerated undertakings.
Crackle goes an extra life.

(From The Electric Chair Poems)


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White Coats enlightened us.
Extremities give rise to energy
(A charged switch
Stung yours).
A botch, by tears.
Cut-short.  No lovebird deliberates
Your cage in its pupil.  His Nikon, winceless,
Impotent to unsettle
Your lost-sleep eyes.
Even-tempered,
Cadaverousness engrossed that thick head
Into a knockabout bruise.

(From The Electric Chair Poems)

Christopher Barnes' first collection LOVEBITES is published by Chanticleer Press.  He is a participant for www.stemistry.com and has just had an art review published by Peels Magazine, UK

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