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.
Christopher Barnes’ first collection Lovebites is published by Chanticleer. Each year he reads at Poetry Scotland’s Callender Poetry Weekend. He also writes art criticism which has been published in Peel and Combustus magazines.