Love this.
The 'shifting list of munros'. Hah!
Jill
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Jill Jones
www.jilljones.com.au
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About It
At first there was a slight problem with bendy tape.
It might have been in metric. Ora half-truth in inches.
I had bought a satellite box, second-hand. I like to peer
into the mundane, like a ball,surfing regional news
because:it reminds me of hotels. Those *crumblingcliffs*
*near Cromer*, the *shifting lists of Munros*, a *postponement*
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(the gift of seeping sewage) of a* County Flower Show*.
I licked a stamp for old times’ sake and thought of islands
shrinking
and a strange e-mail on metrics. Oh the eternal anonymity
of three-star rooms. *There must have beena map once
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*that fit* went a voice on the street, climbing my peephole
window and so a camera panned from the back of my head
and the clothes that didn’t quite, taking in the skies, the
streets,
the farms, the trees, like a greedy sucking engine
looping the continents. I saw huge calendars overthrown
like statuary; I saw a scarecrow taller than the moon.
And knew the size of it was somewhere, like a pavement,
or the story of the last thing you’ll ever see.
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
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