Late Massage
skin memories
do not resist
aversions
among their oil
and flowers
if she never believed
you how could
she understand
what she feared
the touch causes pain
it can in textbooks
and fusty discourse
be explained
this on that
the tightness
of the world
and you how
could you have
preferred other
how stuck
are hands
this was nothing
about being held
they roll you
up to night
careless
winnowing
the season sighs
outside
you never think
of her sister
only she
of quiz and hurt
that's other made
don't explain
autumn slows
the dark
and gone
Jill Jones, St Leonards, 9.00pm, 27 April 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
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