Siegfried Baber

Poulshot, UK

 
Siegfried Baber was born in Barnstaple, Devon in 1989. Since graduating from Bath Spa University with a degree in Creative Writing, he lives and works in the city as a freelance writer and photographer.

Siegfried’s poetry has featured in a variety of publications including Under The Radar, The Interpreter’s House, Butcher’s Dog Magazine, online with The Compass Magazine and Ink, Sweat and Tears, and as part of the Bath Literature Festival. His debut pamphlet When Love Came To The Cartoon Kid is published by Telltale Press, with its title poem nominated for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.

 Written on 24^th April 2020

SAINTS WITH PLASTER GAZES

 

Among such absurd bereavements

how does little Pierre Jean 

with his bucket of brightly coloured feathers 

know exactly what we are feeling?

The future is a pelican in dark spectacles.

Like some vast antique umbrella 

it casts a flapping shadow 

over the empty tennis courts below

where we share the last slice of cherry pie.

I scribble PABLO and MARIE-THERESE

on your wallpapered sketchbook.

You fold my napkin into a paper hat.

Nobody pays much attention

as the dry-ice factory burns to the ground.