Many thanks, Doug. Yr comments appreciated. I wasn't completely sure
about the poem in a poem, so that's especially good to hear.
Best, J
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Subject:Re: Bird burial snap
Moving & opening to the way of our world as we fail it into the near
future.
The poem within the poem works brilliantly here, Jill.
Doug
> On Apr 24, 2019, at 8:05 AM, Andrew Burke wrote:
>
> Great poem, Jill.
>
> Might I add, we've had rain Perth! For the first time in months!
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 18:31, Lawrence Upton
> wrote:
>
>> brilliant
>>
>> L
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 07:30, Jill Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a little something I wrote after having to bury a bird
>>> yesterday:
>>>
>>> Even when the mind
>>> is homeless
>>> the world is there real and difficult
>>> We can’t understand
>>> all we touch but we must talk
>>> about it
>>> The bird I just buried had a home
>>> I’m not giving it a home
>>> or rest
>>> Its feathers and bones part severally
>>> Here’s one category for such a bird
>>> Grallina cyanoleuca
>>> One of the ways we know
>>> what we don’t know
>>> Or writing it down is another
>>> ‘I buried the peewee
>>> so desiccated I couldn’t tell
>>> its age or sex.
>>> One of its wings had parted
>>> from the rest.’
>>> The soil is so much drier
>>> this year
>>> These things
>>> irrevocable
>>> fantastical perilous
>>> Where we’re going
>>> we don’t understand
>>> but we know this happens
>>> When they bury me burn me
>>> finally homeless
>>> home
>>> (if there’s a small garden
>>> of feathers
>>> a large god of dust)
>>> D1=POETRYETC&A=1
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