Hi all,
A combo of awayness and email outage has delayed my snap but here 'tis.
Cheers,
Jill
I was standing outside the picture
I was framed, the guys with the juice
in your head were banging the ceiling
the one truth that is no excuse
is in all the brittle trunks and dry levels
nothing hangs from the branch but constant sun
though my batteries are merged in mire
my wheels rack the tarmac
and suddenly it all looks like landscape
snaky orange and pom-pom green
below my footsteps of clouds, all that
I've ignored, and the noise continuing
you sing along because it seems smooth
until you pull down on the red toggle
the big fan whirring outside, I hope
should smoke fill the cabin
the field is broader than the field
and up here it could be blue
forever, even if you've clunked and
they're on the phone, the aerial
the balloon's gone up and hangs
in a pale yellow space above artifice
I can see for miles and miles
and over there, the magic lake
recedes and water collects
on the edge of the frame as if it could go
either way while the guy with The Fin Review
clocks on his stocks and the dollar
makes its mediated sense, cranked
on war smoky replays and ritual bulletins
somewhere behind me, the state's
in big trouble, the white powder
has escaped, there's an emotional yaw
to the wings, the drift of gum smoke
in a gully comes as no surprise
all the ironies are known
as I pass, these are my remnants
maybe they hold water, but now
they stick to the air, someone vibrates
the sound of progress city-to-city
and I would fly outside my picture
Jill Jones
Canberra to Sydney flight, 2 June 2005
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Jill Jones
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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