Jill: Seems as though your ending... the way your
ending ends... is a great summation -- and a succinctly
put transcendental one.
Gerald S.
> 1. Perth
>
> The Doctor is in, blowing
> its cold Indian breath
> along Adelaide Terrace
> and over the phosphor of the Swan.
>
> There’s Saturday night’s slabs
> and plastic wrap at lamp posts
> broken jewels at the grating.
> A Holden hums at the lights.
>
> The generator plant next door creaks
> trees at the car park edge
> blow like clouds of smoke
> to my muddy eye near midnight.
> The ABC tower interrupts water views
> and the sky is padded with cloud.
>
> It’s too hot for a festival.
> My aircon pushes the cold nicely
> and you’d rather it than
> sweat between breast and brain.
>
> The concert tonight was a lot of
> percussion and water and knew
> when to crescendo.
>
> Today I got as close to
> the Rothkos as allowed.
> His paint drips upwards
> and the colours float
> but seem kin to Rover Thomas’s
> language dots, ochres
> and black Lake Paraku
> across the way.
>
> There’s these notes
> about Transcendence
> but all around, smell the heat
> touch the windy present
> or it touches you.
>
> I put my head in Hepworth
> hear a rushing of metal time, air
> and the stilled.
>
> 2. Adelaide
>
> Change is moving across the continent.
> You can follow on TV.
> The weather page isobars wriggle
> and colours eternally change.
>
> The first whiff of cold is at the East End
> waiting for the free bus
> sky becoming crowded and breezy.
>
> And like the weather
> I leave a trail of myself
> all along the way
> though time zones and deserts
> dust me up
> and unsteadily breathe me
> into nameless minutes
> belonging to no-one.
>
>
> Jill Jones
> Snapped Feb 19-23 2005, Perth and Adelaide
>
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>
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