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 <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> brilliant
>
> L
>
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 07:30, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> 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)
> >
> > ___________________________________________Jill Jones
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