Thanks, Doug,
The shiftness of the lyric ...
Best,
J
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Jill Jones
www.jilljones.com.au
Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
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Like Sheila etc, I really like the shifts through personal, the
inside & outside worlds there, Jill. How it moves…
Doug
> On Feb 28, 2018, at 3:54 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
> Thanks Jill double unreal!
>
>
> On 28/02/2018 01:37, Jill Jones wrote:
>> My Part
>>
>> I’m a history
>> of what I’m not
>> My pallor, my loves, my knuckles
>> the parting of my lips
>> how my hair has fallen
>> over the world
>> of my feet
>>
>> I am a history
>> of those mud flats
>> alarmed confessions
>> exploitations
>> at the foot of the world
>>
>> I sometimes hunger for
>> undergrowth
>> and un-saved junk
>> I’m disclaiming
>> the rumble of nostalgia
>> unreal absence, ‘unreal city’
>> of wandering
>> courses
>> at my feet
>> and the parting
>> of the facts
>>
>> ________________________
>> Jill Jones
>> www.jilljones.com.au
>>
>> Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
>> http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
>>
>>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
the way of what fell
the lies
like the petals
falling drop
delicately
Phyllis Webb
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