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Skinhead Tears

Christopher Barnes, UK

Phlegmatic on the clammy bed
with a quartz-iodine bulb
a glow
in tropical brilliance. I’m blinded,
see only Anthony,
revelations projecting
as clear-mirror flickers,
marionettes of light on the wall.

Fly by the cycle of crying.
His lake-white cheeks
poised in a woodchip moon.
Grimace.
His knuckles spinning tops,
boyish fingers, skin and bone.
Another ghost, another suicide
a miss all the same.



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