stories under sheets
like a slow cure
noise hitting walls
from outside windows
crows and other chatter
pills and potions interrupt
the longing
characters as if you knew
as well that age of
folk songs and fairy lights
the endless afterwards
in which childhood ends
or when a telephone
was really a telephone
hardly ever ringing
and no-one told the truth
they didn't know
and I could be blamed
for all this
Jill Jones
23 June 2005, Marrickville
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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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