well, yes, Jill, the local politics outgoing...
i guess that song was just in my head, then, reading.... <g>
Doug
On 5-Mar-05, at 12:36 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Interesting but, in fact, no, I wasn't consciously thinking of *that
> song. Rain here can be hard without any extraneous referents.
>
> The politics may be local but, then, ain't most most politics.
>
> I should go and check the wall tomorrow.
>
> best,
> Jill
>
>
> On Saturday, March 5, 2005, at 02:18 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> Department of English
>> University of Alberta
>> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>> (780) 436 3320
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>>
>> care to be more
>> precise about whatever
>> it is you are
>> saying, I said
>>
>> Bill Manhire
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________________
> Jill Jones
>
> web site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones
> blog: http://rubystreet.blogspot.com/
>
> Latest books:
> Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries (Wild Honey Press)
> http://www.wildhoneypress.com
>
> Screens Jets Heaven. Available now from Salt Publishing
> http://www.saltpublishing.com
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
care to be more
precise about whatever
it is you are
saying, I said
Bill Manhire
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