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The
Entertainers
Illuminated
poems
by John Gibbens
FORTHCOMING
Expanded
2nd edition
A5, 28pp, stapled, card cover
ISBN
978-1-905465-17-0
£6.00
A celebration
of the sawdust and the boards in twelve poems about performers and their
presiding spirit the juggler and the conjuror, the bareback rider,
stiltwalker and trapeze artiste, the funambulist and the ventroliquist,
Pierrot and Harlequin, the ringmaster and the tragedian, and Hermes. Each
poem is accompanied by a linocut three black & white and eight
colour.
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Bareback
The waist-high
net-clad thighs
and clenched and seam-drawn rump
that swoop before your eyes,
the tasselled basque and deep
décolletage that keep
me barely in, and shown
shaved oxter, arms upthrown,
call for applause when, jump
and somersault complete,
I land on slender feet.
These, as Eros fancies,
should surmount sleek ponies dances.
And yet the truth, although you see no horn,
is that I am the Virgin tames the Unicorn.
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