Thanks, Doug. Appreciate what you picked up therein.
I chose the compressed 5 line form to do that - quick and slow at the
same time.
And then as well as now, as then is always in now.
Of course, there are specific Aus things from this week referenced but
I'm happy if it doesn't need to be obvious to the other side of the
world.
However, if anyone is interested and doesn't know the context of some
of this, here's a 'news item' - I use the word loosely as one does
these days - which explains some of the context.
Warning: in case it offends you, it contains the 'c' word more than
once, and some other 'strong' language (Yeah, Straya. Sometimes, ya
gotta laugh):
https://wwwpedestrian.tv/news/the-man-who-allegedly-headbutted-tony-abbott-confirmed-it-was-not-about-ssm/
Jill
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Sent:Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:48:50 -0600
Subject:Re: Snap: This Week's Pour
It maybe moves quickly through those short lines, Jill, but it slows
the (this) reader down, to think (about).
And to think into how words do it.
Then as well as now, which I thought an import of the piece.
Doug
> On Sep 27, 2017, at 5:48 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
>
> Well, I am ill at the moment. It obviously knows
>
> J
>
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> Jill Jones
> www.jilljones.com.au
>
> Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
> http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> To:
> Cc:
> Sent:Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:35:56 +0100
> Subject:Re: Snap: This Week's Pour
>
> hi Jill cheers from a selfstyled elderly poet
>
> spell check is trying to change Jill to ill!!!
>
> On 27/09/2017 09:13, Jill Jones wrote:
>> Hi Patrick,
>> Haha. But this refers to a real incident this week in Aus
involving
> an exPM and a selfstyled anarchist DJ.
>>
>> J
>>
>> Sent from BlueMail
>>
>> On 27 Sep. 2017, 5:37 pm, at 5:37 pm, Patrick McManus wrote:
>>> Jill thanks funny thing when I was reading it thought (not you of
>>> course!)
>>>
>>> A Poet surrounds
>>> you with
>>> ridiculous thinking
>>> someone simply
>>> wants to punch you out
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27/09/2017 00:15, Jill Jones wrote:
>>>> This Week’s Pour
>>>>
>>>> The world pours
>>>> out over the
>>>> world which
>>>> pours out
>>>> further than
>>>>
>>>> As if a subscription
>>>> extended life
>>>> as levitation
>>>> or something obviously
>>>> visible
>>>>
>>>> As if we bring
>>>> the little we
>>>> shoulder as if
>>>> the sun sang on
>>>> something important
>>>>
>>>> A DJ surrounds
>>>> you with
>>>> ridiculous thinking
>>>> someone simply
>>>> wants to punch you out
>>>>
>>>> As if the ‘sudden’ is
>>>> the way life is
>>>> apparent, what grows
>>>> offspring
>>>> or exceptions
>>>>
>>>> A word prolongs
>>>> how it feels
>>>> and extends
>>>> same-same as a way
>>>> of working distinct
>>>>
>>>> Words, not as
>>>> rhymes but
>>>> unearthing
>>>> provenances
>>>> moving through gaps
>>>>
>>>> That is, imagine
>>>> refugees, storms, evidence
>>>> or all these relations
>>>> plucked as thought
>>>> via questions
>>>>
>>>>
>
Douglas Barbour
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