PROPAGANDA 36
Vroomed by -
A half-turn.
Random shot to eminence.
Mugginess quickened, fervent.
Plane crashed into whitecaps.
*
Vroomed by
turn
shot
fervent
whitecaps
*
Kismet vroomed by -
Wrong-turn.
Gamester shot - peevish.
Dread unshifting, fervent.
Avoided low-ebbed whitecaps.
***
PROPAGANDA 37
Self-possessed evening, diffused.
Muscatel gulped, we quit.
Loudspeakers roared.
Fume-thickening corroded nostrils.
Overshadows ignited red.
*
diffused
quit
roared
Fume-thickening
Ignited red
*
Precinct’s hubbub diffused,
swarms quit.
Their warplanes roared.
Fume-thickening blind eyed,
asphalt ignited red.
***
PROPAGANDA 38
Lips cricked with panic.
Tattery drift, rubble.
Searchlights hastened -
Vicious unseemly glares.
*
Lips
Tattery
hastened
glares
*
Lips stiffen, soundless.
Tattery clobbered paupers.
Rescuers hastened.
A bonesetter glares.
***
PROPAGANDA 39
Mortified spectators on iron bridge.
Flat rat-a-tats.
Lurid whistles hurtled.
Craters defeated paths.
Glass unhinged.
*
spectators
Flat
whistles
paths
Glass
*
Spectators intoxicated.
Flat ums and ahs.
Nightfall whistles, melodious.
Vanishing ragged paths.
Air-nips turned glass.
***
PROPAGANDA 40
Hollow in multiplex,
Thrown-about studwork.
Audience giggled.
Constables pointed freight
By dint of ruins.
*
in multiplex
studwork
giggled
freight
dint
*
Real-hoot flick in multiplex,
B-list studwork.
Seam-bursting house giggled.
Alfresco freight tinkles,
Dint warps crossroad.
By
Christopher Barnes
In 1998 Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 2000 he read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology ‘Titles Are Bitches’. Christmas 2001 he debuted at Newcastle’s famous Morden Tower doing a reading of poems. Each year he read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and partook in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of his collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
