Thanks, Bill.
It's a combo of windows, actually, but had been thinking through the
idea this week. The gully winds, f'r instance, happened behind the
house I previously lived in, closer to the Hills.
J
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Jill Jones
Latest books:Wild Curious Air, Recent Work
Press.https://recentworkpress.com/product/wild-curious-air/
A History Of What I'll Become, UWAP.Shortlisted for the 2021 Kenneth
Slessor Prize for
Poetryhttps://uwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/poetry/products/a-history-of-what-ill-become
Viva the Real, UQP.Shortlisted for 2019 Prime Minister's Literary
Awards and 2020 John Bray Poetry Award
https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1473/Viva%20the%20Real
I acknowledge the Kaurna people, traditional custodians and songmakers
of the land on which I live. Sovereignty was never ceded
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Subject:Re: Snap: Day folds
Each line kicks and challenges and sings, Jill. That sounds like a
hellova
window.
Bill
On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 7:16 pm, Jill Jones wrote:
> day folds onto another day
> and form is tested as leaves drift
> empty branches grey sky without formality
>
> roofs open to a spectre of rain
> night blurs lines against my gates
> stars fall past roofs like ancient hail
>
> night is more blue than tomorrow
> mortality is a word like damage
> the gully winds have ceased
>
> I am spent and almost original
> immersed in a kind of solitude
> among ancient choices of sleep
>
> hold my words in your hands
> the articulate air one more time
> let’s dance in bird dream
>
> then rise in more present again
> streaming through our window’s
> impure and generous sound
>
> ___________________________________________
> Jill Jones
> Latest books:Wild Curious Air, Recent Work
> Press.https://recentworkpress.com/product/wild-curious-air/
> A History Of What I'll Become, UWAP.Shortlisted for the 2021
Kenneth
> Slessor Prize for
> Poetryhttps://
>
uwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/poetry/products/a-history-of-what-ill-become
> Viva the Real, UQP.Shortlisted for 2019 Prime Minister's Literary
> Awards and 2020 John Bray Poetry Award
> https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1473/Viva%20the%20Real
>
> I acknowledge the Kaurna people, traditional custodians and
songmakers
> of the land on which I live. Sovereignty was never ceded
>
>
>
>
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