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Hi all, Just got back from travelling, having paid my respects to the best poet's bookshop, Collected Works, in Melbourne - a city with a few summing-up memories for me, one of them contained in the below. JJ It’s something in this city an old friend clacking like a tram who then does something strange a hook turn so you don’t know where to turn. Somewhere between the station and the markets in shadows and in lanes where it’s cold and coffee I see them that they not see me not years gone. Some guy kicks the lights and a truck loaded up with watermelons pulls in beside the park in this country of country towns there’s something making tyres screech a smoke and a bet that streets smile or frown. It’s about half past nothing you know there’ll be a lot of weather hotels are all blue and grey and parking if you’re clever. In my room the towels are made in Pakistan but the sky looks just like Melbourne. _______________________________________________________ Jill Jones Latest books: Broken/Open. Available from Salt Publishing http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710416.htm Where the Sea Burns. Wagtail Series. Picaro Press PO Box 853, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282. [log in to unmask] Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries (Wild Honey Press) http://www.wildhoneypress.com web site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones blog1: Ruby Street http://rubystreet.blogspot.com/ blog2: Latitudes http://itudes.blogspot.com/