This poem was written directly after a screening of John Wick on Warwick Film and Television Studies’ Transnational Action Cinema module, in a Warwick Writing Programme Practice of Poetry seminar. The author, Annabel Spinks-Jones, also created the above mixed media illustration.

John Wick

by Annabel Spinks-Jones

You think it’s over but it’s just begun

Revenge demands of you a smoking gun

You thought that you could simply stab his neck

But this vendetta isn’t over yet

You soak your hands with colours Valentine

Remember days with her, sublime

Sand running through your hands like ti-

-’tening fingers on the trigger,

Bang!