Agree with Andrew, Jill, liking the quick shifts throughout, a narrative buried in those quickly perceived images, what you might see as your mind takes it all in.
I can see it as part of such a series…
Doug
> On Oct 17, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Love it / dig it. Witty and jump-scene cinematic.
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> On 18 October 2017 at 10:15, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Singing Lawn T-shirts
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>> Scraggy lawns sing, dust
>> rises from barbecues, kids in pink
>> t-shirts skinny up walls
>> someone’s tending weeds and fake grass
>> maybe all this grass
>> is fake, there’s no harmony, though
>> it seems pleasant despite meaty
>> smoke, the cheers, the competition
>> with winter moss and driveways, with
>> another country, with cute white statues
>> concrete in cracks, sovereignty
>> of swooping birds, unknowingness
>> false curiosity, islands
>> of indifference in the way you might
>> see your body here and where
>> or what you should return to, a mythical
>> fence, your pink t-shirt, dirty now
>> laughing in a dream country
>> a far, a way, but where
>> the clouds look a little like here
>> and everyone’s playing or holding hands
>> or sitting round a fire, singing
>> with the evening dust, sniffing the air
>> for change
>>
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>> Jill Jones
>> www.jilljones.com.au
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