SNOWFARI WEDDING




               BBrrrrrr crystals.
It's the bandit's daughter's fete
But they've never nodded-in requests.
"Splish splash I was taking a bath"
Not to mince the matter
Is a trifle offensive (amongst cake and champagne)
To ears polite.


The hydrophonic orchestra is snowflakes.
       Font melodies. Sprinkles.
                Rapids in a tube. Sucky drains.
                                             Unrespected
       Artists of dulcet chambers.
Balancing the atonement of oceans.


The bandit do-littles on a sledge
Cursing a pedigree of huskies, points a blunderbuss
As a calliope seal
Dives into an ice-hole.


Bang! The minstrel's agent's shot,
Cold-sweating on a fireballed stage.
Puddles splosh rouge


"I do," they say, squinting at musical blood.
                          Icicles elongate
                        Frostbit.



BIO: Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writers award In 1998. Christmas 2001 debuted at Newcastle's famous Morden Tower and each year reads for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and partakes in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.