I am recovering from too much
drinking or dreaming
you're phoning from up-country
with woes of the drowned camera
corrosion and insurance and bruises
but yet you can visit the frozen cobwebs
around the verandah
morning radio trickles in its woes and strangers
a little piece of sky burnt bright
as it fell over Sydney this morning
listen to the astronomers explain
and then there's the world
all the contusions we know and don't know
my knee or my dream is stiff where it clipped the floor
you tell me that down by the creek
there were twelve baby platypus, with bright eyes
they are curious you say
and no bigger than your hand
Jill Jones
18 August 8.10am 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
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blog2: Latitudes http://itudes.blogspot.com/
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