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   THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) VOLUME 13 NUMBER 1 JUL 2011
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                                                        CHRISTOPHER BARNES                 ___________________________________________          three poems
  by CHRISTOPHER BARNES          
   Love Lust   He mastered Able-bodied soft soaping. Smitten readiness In the heart stunt was witless In my rebut. I croak interfering with hoots. A legion, dismantled dunes. The idoliser is
  triumphal For the animation of his flame.  But I had to incite it solo.        Letting Go    Dawn’s look had dissolving views,  Disownment of an evasive trace.  Oxytocin* unpinked her arm  - the foetus should expect a pyre.     She deflates the doorbell  Emboxed by the transom,  Soft-nothinged as
  breath catches fill themselves.     In balled-up hand writing, “Dear Sam,”  Shoved kerbward  Rolls to a girlish-days doll…      *drug that induces an abortion            
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