I liked that, too, Stephen, & wonder if some of the 'politics' is in
fact local, but also if the 'rain' is meant to be heard as 'hard'
too....
Jill? that song in your head?
Doug
On 3-Mar-05, at 1:49 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> I like the tough edges on this, Jill. I am not quite as to whether or
> not
> the weather is a metaphysic for the disrupt/violent political
> circumstance.
> And, if so, what's at the source/cause of the grumbling in the polis.
>
> Something is going on here and I want to know what & why.
>
> Grumbling to know more - or am I dense??
>
> Stephen V
> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
>
>
>
>> the air grumbles, pressure tips down
>> this is not a diesel day but storm time
>> aloud birds track their shelter
>> - look for the grey within the green -
>> and all along the length of these minutes
>> there's the muttering of opinion
>> this time could it be golf or riots in the west
>>
>> last night's opinion was spread
>> on the kind of wall made for it
>> fuck tha police
>> comin' at you
>> straight outa
>> Macquarie Fields
>>
>> storm it is, reckons the mynah bird
>> the starlings and fizzing parrots
>> the luminous nature thing booms
>> of what we are afraid maybe
>> this is no lie, colder rain
>> than this falls everywhere
>> even if only once
>>
>> Jill Jones
>> Marrickville, 2 March 2005
>>
>>
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Douglas Barbour
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care to be more
precise about whatever
it is you are
saying, I said
Bill Manhire
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