Like it - and the process - Jill. Good reading in Canberra!
Andrew
On 22 March 2018 at 19:39, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm not entering this part of the discussion, Patrick. Am flyin on by.
>
> J
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> To:
> Cc:
> Sent:Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:39:54 +0000
> Subject:Re: Snap: with magpie
>
> Jill re
>
> Australian birds are louder, more
> aggressive and intelligent than most other birds a
>
> yes I've noticed that my partner Janet is Australian of the Melbourne
> variety
> P
>
> On 22/03/2018 02:26, Jill Jones wrote:
> > Thanks, David. The last lines were also the toughest to write,
> though
> > maybe that's not uncommon in this game.
> >
> > And, yes, our magpies have nothing to do with corvids, they are
> > passerines. Their calls are extremely complex and go on for quite a
> > while. You can hear a lot of, umm, 'discussion' in our
> neighbourhood.
> > In my adopted state, a version of them is called the 'piping
> shrike'
> > (a designation not known anywhere else in Australia - that's SA for
> > you).
> >
> > Maybe you've heard of Tim Low's book 'Where Song Began' which,
> though
> > at times speculative, proposes that Australian birds are louder,
> more
> > aggressive and intelligent than most other birds and also contends
> > that they spread genetically around the globe.
> >
> > https://www.timlow.com/books/bird-book
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jill
> >
> > ________________________
> > 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, 21 Mar 2018 17:05:06 +0000
> > Subject:Re: Snap: with magpie
> >
> > Like this Jill, particularly love the closing lines.
> >
> > Yes, your magpies aren't of the Crow family at all, and have a
> > syrinx, so
> > they can warble. Ours though are among the most intelligent of all
> > birds
> > and can often be found discussing Wittgenstein by the Mathematical
> > Bridge.
> > :)
> >
> > best
> >
> > David
> >
> > On 21 March 2018 at 01:10, Jill Jones wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > TIME WOULD CHOOSE
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > what is the magpie searching for next to the path
> > >
> > > all this summer we’ve felt only dust
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > a tree has fallen, its sap taken by drought’s gravity
> > >
> > > and there’s a mash of branches like a burst moon
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I trace ancient blur in the floating night
> > >
> > > those tiny points spilling from the galaxy’s breast
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > the creek is torpid and smells like a sour sea
> > >
> > > the bushlands seem to crackle and splinter like bones
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I can tell myself its natural that everything dies
> > >
> > > but when is death a place or time you would choose
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > to lie down together with the soil and the stone
> > >
> > > to give up the air and the song in your mouth
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > rather be with sky like that magpie and dreaming
> > >
> > > rather be vagrant than something you’d own
> > >
> > > [Note: the words ending each line of this poem are also words
> > > ending
> > > lines of various poems I've been reading this week on not
> > dis-similar
> > > 'themes']
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________
> > > Jill Jones
> > > www.jilljones.com.au
> > >
> > > Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
> > > http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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Andrew
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