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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

March 19-25 2005 Vol 198 No 3384

Poetry

Wind Walks the Hand

by Tim Jones

Wind walks the hand over rooftops

searching for gaps.


Through the hole in the flashing

the neighbourhood cat


traps the neighbourhood rat

in our attic.


Cries, scuffles.

Drawn-out, messy death.


A ceiling below

we look up from Buffy and wonder.


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