THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation. VOLUME 9 DOUBLE ISSUE JAN 2007 JUL 2007

CHRISTOPHER BARNES ___________________________________________ two poems by CHRISTOPHER BARNES JAZZ Swell-hung notes Baby it out In wrong songs Rubber-flung riffs Billy goat to munch On green hills of blue Dead-stopped falling trains Crystallise nuggets Of satchel-mouth books War is the senses In the frying Soul Food Of the intellect JEAN-CLAUDE IN THE PARK Rapiers of twitch grass Hand the colourfast sackcloth, The cogent objectivity of its stitches. Didn’t it slip in from Versailles? You bottleneck the air with a crack And the ink of hot coffee Tinctures pollen, A brain-shaped fungus. The concussed breeze Sweats your Toulouse oils. We impinge Pate in celery, croissants, Back olive salad tugging flies. Other liaisons perch In boats, laburnums rub each other up At bough-ends, and silver fish Call out to each other Undoing the self-deception of isolation. CHRISTOPHER BARNES, UK The Writers Post the magazine of literature & literature-in-translation, founded 1999, based in the US. VOLUME 9 DOUBLE ISSUE JAN 2007 & JUL 2007 Editorial note: Works published in this issue are simultaneously published in the printed Wordbridge magazine (ISSN: 1540-1723). Copyright © 2007 Christopher Barnes. Nothing in this magazine may be downloaded, distributed, or reproduced without the permission of the author/ translator/ artist/ The Writers Post/ and Wordbridge magazine. Creating links to place The Writers Post or any of its pages within other framesets or in other documents is copyright violation, and is not permitted. Return to Contents HOME