New Poetry by Stuart Barnes

Hourly I wake,

crave and roar,

nurse myself, shit,

sleep, then dream

A revelation,

A thirty-three

-year-old miracle

severing

psychiatry’s

funiculus,

depriving

involution,

effacing

the universe’s

most God-awful

transgression.

‘Miserere nobis!’

‘Miserere nobis!’

‘Miserere nobis!’

Miserere nobis: Have mercy upon us

- Stuart Barnes 2013

Bio: Stuart Barnes is currently working on Blackouts and other poems, a manuscript dedicated to the memory of Gwen Harwood. He edits PASH capsule, an online journal of contemporary love poetry. Poems are forthcoming in Southerly, sacred / profane, Social Alternatives, Mascara Literary Review, & Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry. Twitter: @StuartABarnes