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Damascus:\u00a0 Narrow gauge<\/strong><\/p>\n The Ottoman train drifts away We twist through the suburbs, then climb cursing, rattling, whistling, huffing, wind funnels and pokes through holes children pelt the intruder <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Colin\u00a0 Crewdson<\/strong> lives in the Westcountry and works as an osteopath. He has travelled widely in the Middle East, and used to love Syria before it fell into the Inferno. He’s had poems published in The Journal<\/em> and The Open Mouse<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Damascus:\u00a0 Narrow gauge The Ottoman train Swiss made (1905) on its narrow mountain gauge drifts away from the main Hejaz line, smoking, laying smoke wreaths for the city. We twist through the suburbs, stop for rubbish dumped on the tracks, stop for busy roads, then climb cursing, rattling, whistling, huffing, an onomatopoeic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11372,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions\/11372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSwiss made (1905)
\non its narrow mountain gauge<\/p>\n
\nfrom the main Hejaz line, smoking,
\nlaying smoke wreaths for the city.<\/p>\n
\nstop for rubbish dumped
\non the tracks, stop for busy roads,<\/p>\n
\nan onomatopoeic fussing effort.
\nFreezing the passengers,<\/p>\n
\nin the wooden floor and broken windows.
\nStones fly in the apricot orchards:<\/p>\n
\nas its doppling self
\nshifts away from its past.<\/p>\n