Christopher Barnes
From This Theatre, Your Prompt
(11)

Magenta doorway from ticket office.
Neck-wrestling sightlines.

Tabloids heaped.
Crucifix on ironing board.

(12)

Slab-roofed hexagon.
Centreline – empty balcony.

Razorwire on climbing frame.
Plastic ivy manacles swings.

(13)

Semicircled footlights.
Awning mounted on pillars.

Tilted polystyrene crag.
Overturned skiff.

(14)

Through the thick of illusion,
Caged projector overhangs.

Enormous bus shelter,
Unfussy hedge.

(15)

Grisaille broadloom, plush upholstery,
Ranging asymmetry.

Lecture room desks.
Fractions on blackboard.


(16)

House-lights dissolve
Conventional notions of Realism.

Teaset on sideboard.
Isolated door, agape.