Bubbles

Posted on 2023-10-04 by Bartholomew Barker

Song’s first bar
Your eyes change
Gentle friendship
To wanton desire

Bubble forms
Around us
Room slides
From focus

Just your eyes
Fixed on mine
Just your skin
Caressing mine

Just your body
And just mine
Just us in this
Couch-sized universe

Just like love
Except I know
Exactly when
This bubble

Will collapse

This year marks the tenth anniversary of my first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular. To celebrate I’m posting my favorite poems from the book on Wednesday nights, of course. Along with the poems, I’ll be featuring illustrations by Tammy Atkinson of Atkinson Creations.

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
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9 Responses to Bubbles

  1. trE's avatar trE says:
    2023-10-04 at 21:01

    Okay, this bit is undeniably superb!

    “Just your body
    And just mine
    Just us in this
    Couch-sized universe

    Just like love
    Except I know
    Exactly when
    This bubble

    Will collapse”

    What a great verse, Bart!

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  2. Abiogbaolushola's avatar Abiogbaolushola says:
    2023-10-05 at 02:59

    This describes the undescribable moment when two bodies are intertwined as one. It is a super-terrestrial experience when the two are far away from casual deceptive order of sensuality.

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  3. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2023-10-06 at 03:32

    I’d define a lap dance as…

    When someone pays someone to wiggle about in their lap – the aim being sexual arousal for the …lap.

    Bart. doesn’t kid himself – he knows it’s a ‘bubble’.

    There are all kinds of bubbles – but they are all bubbles when it comes down to it.

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  4. Dan's avatar Dan says:
    2023-10-10 at 10:30

    A great poem, and a great drawing too that illustrates the sensuality of the moment so well. Did you draw it?

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