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Poetry
The Poetry of Christopher Barnes
Filming ‘Blood Shot Silk’ – Deleted Scene (28)
A string-section clambers its incidents.
Fustian trails at an unshut hatch. Cut to…
Candle-light across a jade wall –
An exponential, mischief-making Star,
Crystalline lipstick, hurled-back hair.
We’re interned
Into the transitory
Where in a low-angled shot
An Actor fluffs his lines.
Filming ‘Blood Shot Silk’ – Deleted Scene (29)
Logo….set=piece zither,
Cursive font captions dribbled onto alley-way.
Twilight subsides over a cardboard Manhattan .
Bette Davis cremates tobacco leaf.
Compact opens in flamboyance. Signature footage
Will be spliced in…freeze frame.
A side of a six-shooter.
The hearse-wheel revolves
In its barrel.
Filming ‘Blood Shot Silk’ – Deleted Scene (30)
Starkly backlit shot.
Close-up – hairy forearm on steering wheel.
A ready-to-die attendant gnaws nails.
High-wrought portcullis. An unembarrassed stalag.
Track to the right
Montgomery Clift squinnying through glass and grille.
Cinophiles will enthral at this scene
Canonising it Classic Noir.
Filming ‘Blood Shot Silk’ – Deleted Scene (31)
Bland eulogy – mortification censor in moonspill.
Cronk of Theremin. Tumbrel din.
Our celluloid assembly takes flesh;
Ramifications fit skin-tight. Bevan, now-a-days eyeless,
Slams his white stick on an R.I.P.
A thunderstruck crow
Pelts from its nest. Orion’s Belt
Reels bloodclot red. The footrule at the Action Line
Is fell-in-with. This time.
Filming ‘Blood Shot Silk’ – Deleted Scene (32)
A trill-chant, rope-hopping children.
Unbalanced china.
A caged owl cranks his agog head.
Camera 7 twitches, dazzles,
Overshadows to black. A spotlight relumes.
Feverish guggle of Ali Wrey
As he rocks the suckling dead in its cot.
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About the Author...
In 1998 Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writers
award. In July 200heI 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 my poems.
Each year he reasd for Proudwords lesbian and gay
writing festival and partakes in workshops.
2005 saw the publication of his collection LOVEBITES
published by Chanticleer Press.
On Saturday 16Th August 2003heI read at the Edinburg
Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton.
BBC web-pages
www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/gay.2004/05/section_28.shtml
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