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Jon Stone
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| sight | ever | gazing | the bars |
| grown | blunt | it sees | nothing |
| seem | to him | bars in | thousands |
| before | no | world | beyond |
| paces | circles | tighter | over |
| move | soft | power | strides |
| like | ritual | around | center |
| there | will | numb | stands. |
| only | time | pupil | shutter |
| draw | quiet | image | enters |
| slips | among | tensed | limbs |
| reach | heart | ceases |
© 2012, Jon Stone
Jon Stone
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1983)
To say that Jon Stone has just, at the time of writing, had his first full collection published would be to understate the impact he has already had on the rising young generation of UK poets, with three pamphlets published in 2010 alone, and an e-pamphlet in 2011.
His accomplishments include not only the writing of formal, voraciously experimental, precociously accomplished poetry but (along...
His accomplishments include not only the writing of formal, voraciously experimental, precociously accomplished poetry but (along...
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EISENSTANGEN
| sight | ever | gazing | the bars |
| grown | blunt | it sees | nothing |
| seem | to him | bars in | thousands |
| before | no | world | beyond |
| paces | circles | tighter | over |
| move | soft | power | strides |
| like | ritual | around | center |
| there | will | numb | stands. |
| only | time | pupil | shutter |
| draw | quiet | image | enters |
| slips | among | tensed | limbs |
| reach | heart | ceases |
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