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Chris Jones

Down time by Chris Jones

Down Time

by Chris Jones — You used to joke you were a champion sleeper / a heavyweight, the kind who’d knuckle down / to eight hour shifts without so much as a peep; / reel wide-screen dreams before you drifted round
Part of the front cover of 'Little Piece of Harm' by Chris Jones showing a wet puddle ion a pavement n the dark, in an urban setting

A man was shot not far from where we live

Emma Simon reviews Little Piece of Harm by Chris Jones (Longbarrow, 2020)

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