Christopher Barnes
3 poems
ANDY PANDY’S NOONTIDE QUICKENS
Space Hopping over Vauxhall Bridge, ketch unused. Thames wriggles. He slugs whiskey flask, bounds to target. Citybuster’s potent, rigged for lobbing. Gravitas – second curtain rises in an hour.
TOPO GIGIO ADAGIOS ‘BANDERA ROSSA’
Key energises Lambretta. Updraught fillips chin. Last-minute wayfarers snarl, toot-toot! He installs Red Brigades’ cordite above office WC, zips five miles to trattoria, aloof. Dogsbody rattles expresso.
JACK-IN-THE-BOX POISED ON WINDOW SILL
TOPO GIGIO ADAGIOS ‘BANDERA ROSSA’
Key energises Lambretta. Updraught fillips chin. Last-minute wayfarers snarl, toot-toot! He installs Red Brigades’ cordite above office WC, zips five miles to trattoria, aloof. Dogsbody rattles expresso.
JACK-IN-THE-BOX POISED ON WINDOW SILL
Bulls maddened through roadways stamp. Clamjamfry upsurges deafening. He factors patience, timing. Spy hole vision is focussed. Chief Whip, off guard, inclines to trap. Our springing hero triggers Colt 45. ETA heralds knockout.