One night, falls, the cold glare lit
that not a cloud, polished sheets
moon forms hills, previewed spirit
breaks much blew, darkness, horizon.
Green network, branches, dowsing sleep
cavities, stained glare, cracked with silence
burnt the light, unperceived, entrap
disorder below full moon, exhausted.
Wrapped in covers, moulded through
moon in-drawn, blown the light
edging pavement, hummocks, diffuse
goes inward, during, exhausted, regain.
Unsparing or timid, eye of sleep
deplete the night, escape, rolled on.
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One, night black, gloss on branches
before resignation, sun or cloud tide
broken under, examined with colour
lean, spreading, foot light.
Unperceived damage though
buoys decay, disturbance of frost
the cold rope, a blank dawn, lit
this became green underfoot.
To sleep if you burn the light
vacate wood, cracked by peace
era illuminated, colder haze
before the sun, water, surface.
Breaches dark hills, gate
waked up, the rise, sun-wasted.
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One night's colour, lucent, tide
ignite, through windows, before sun
extreme deflections, polished, light
the ruptures of very skies.
Assemble in density, that small root
door and night, distant sweepings
green with tide, moved far from forests
here, more loss, if I cover with dark.
Within, the bush looks like surface
stain, scribbly bark, broken underfoot
continent track along cold peace
an automobile waked up, rolled, ascent.
Colours phase, moon losing form
shout outside window, laughter.
Jill Jones
Marrickville 8.29am, 25 January 2006
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Jill Jones
Latest books:
Broken/Open. Available from Salt Publishing
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Where the Sea Burns. Wagtail Series. Picaro Press
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Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries (Wild Honey Press)
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