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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>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
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>
> care to be more
> precise about whatever
> it is you are
> saying, I said
>
> Bill Manhire
>
>
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