Windmill
Brake
Tie the sails.
Gale-warning night. Inside the mill. Barama will not let go of the brake rope. “Tie the sails.” Take the lash down here and it is only a lock-down.
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About this work
Gale-warning night. A hill mill. Inside it is flour and wood. Barama is thirty-three, the keeper, and a married woman. She lives here. Her husband works the coastal turbines on the night shift.
She will not let go of the brake rope. “Tie the sails.” Take the lash and the night ends as a lock-down. Stay and tie the sails, and it stops being a lock-down.
Characters
- BaramaWindmill keeper · married woman
- MeNarrator · night maintenance
- HusbandCoastal wind · mentioned
