(Marisol Escobar) Marisol, Untitled from an untitled portfolio, 1978
Sketching Aids
On a queen
size sheet two
men, one dog
in between
their legs, blue
set squares. Fog
and grief preen,
then rule who
will prologue
the thirteen
years, the flu,
the curves’ clog.
Stuart Barnes is the author of two poetry collections: Like To The Lark (Upswell Publishing, 2023) and the award-winning Glasshouses (UQP, 2016). His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. He tweets and grams as @StuartABarnes