Hi Peter,
Thanks. It was a place I was glad to get out of.
Jill
On Friday, April 15, 2005, at 04:05 AM, Peter Ciccariello wrote:
> Wow.
> Rhythmic claustrophobia.
>
> -Peter C.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:21:41 GMT
> Subject: Snap (late)/Jones
>
>
> The hums of motels
>
> So everything sounds like rain
> or the palm wind off Timor or Arufura.
> You stop the triune blades white
> step into the air-con's tune.
> Everything falls from the ceiling
> even fluoro runs down the wall.
> It's as far from heaven as you can get
> amongst the humid hip-hop air
> up the hauling concrete steps.
> There's smoke and gasp somewhere.
>
> You've seen this movie
> what infernos! you're on the run!
> But there's nothing to chase you down
> no bulldust, no crocs, leaping lizards
> only the phones and the voices
> you've made back home.
> Like the fortune cookie said:
> 'you dial it up', now deal the circle
> that rain washes away.
> You can dust up again tomorrow.
>
> Night's hums are mechanical, electrical
> while brother rain wets the seconds
> and sister storm sings, not little tune
> a bigger pattern, atmosphere deep
> past beige blue curtains and the sweat.
> It's animate, breath and thunder.
> Let sleep decide!
> At least the walls are white
> and the wrapper says 'clean glass'.
>
> Jill Jones
> Asti Motel, Darwin, snapped round midnight, 13 April 2005
>
>
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Latest books:
Broken/Open. Available from Salt Publishing
http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710416.htm
Where the Sea Burns. Wagtail Series. Picaro Press
PO Box 853, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282. [log in to unmask]
Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries (Wild Honey Press)
http://www.wildhoneypress.com
web site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones
blog1: Ruby Street http://rubystreet.blogspot.com/
blog2: Latitudes http://itudes.blogspot.com/
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