2 September 2003 | Vol. 3, No. 3
Topsy-Turvy
In widow's weeds, the bull, the sun,
the flower, the light bulb—it clings
to room 7 of Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
Guernica, the fizzled-out horse, the woman.
Ma'am
so long as I
assimilate themes
from a cubed root
suchlike "whole pictures"
in gone-bad colour
you will remember;
gun-burst at railways
Jose on the bicycle,
rose-tinting an escape
in the blackness of your lace.
About the author:
Christopher Barnes chose not to include biographical notes.
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