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The Wind Outside

by and published in Edition Six of Pomegranate

is like a barrelling tubetrain with failed brakes.
It shakes the scaffolding’s bones. It’s Charlton

Heston rattling the bars at his jailer apes.
It’s wind with its hair down, wind with a hard-on,

with nothing better to do. Town-crier,
‘end is nigh’er, horseman (headless), failure.

It’s Brando’s big scene in A Streetcar Named Desire,
vertigo, Ahab, chimera, drunk sailor.

It punches the tarpaulin, gets tangled in it.
The fight lasts an hour – the thug wind wins,

crosses the window like ransacking soldiers
crossing a trapdoor, beneath which, for minute

on minute we lie, clenched tight as tins.
Then the wind jumps off – and blows out – and smoulders

Jon Stone

Jon Stone is co-creator of cult arts journal Fuselit and new micro-anthology publisher Sidekick Books. He was highly commended in the 2009 National Poetry Competition and his debut pamphlet, Scarecrows, is out now from Happenstance. He blogs at http://fuselit.blogspot.com

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