Stuart Barnes

In 2009 Stuart Barnes’s unpublished memoir, A Cold Decade was shortlisted for the Olvar Wood Fellowship Award; and his poem “Solomon” was shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. He lives in Melbourne.

 
 
 
Blood Taken

God’s grey waiting room

eyes like stray cats’
stench
of rotting compost

patients spin between doctors
like coloured tops between children

a transaction:
questions,
answers

tests specified on paper
in puzzling Latin

roll call: the nurse
hums a golden
oldie like a vampire

blackout

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