Annette Barnes

IT’S A CLASS THING
February 21, 2018 Barnes Annette

IT’S A CLASS THING

 

She looked better
than she sounded

as beauties from
her country often

do to the English.
You can be taught

to be mellifluous,
a prime minister

was, but you have
to decide to learn.

 

 

 

 

Annette Barnes is the author of a book of poems, Next In Line (Pinyon Press, 2017).