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I'm not entering this part of the discussion, Patrick. Am flyin on by. J ________________________ Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" To: Cc: Sent:Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:39:54 +0000 Subject:Re: Snap: with magpie Jill re Australian birds are louder, more aggressive and intelligent than most other birds a yes I've noticed that my partner Janet is Australian of the Melbourne variety P On 22/03/2018 02:26, Jill Jones wrote: > Thanks, David. The last lines were also the toughest to write, though > maybe that's not uncommon in this game. > > And, yes, our magpies have nothing to do with corvids, they are > passerines. Their calls are extremely complex and go on for quite a > while. You can hear a lot of, umm, 'discussion' in our neighbourhood. > In my adopted state, a version of them is called the 'piping shrike' > (a designation not known anywhere else in Australia - that's SA for > you). > > Maybe you've heard of Tim Low's book 'Where Song Began' which, though > at times speculative, proposes that Australian birds are louder, more > aggressive and intelligent than most other birds and also contends > that they spread genetically around the globe. > > https://www.timlow.com/books/bird-book > > Cheers, > Jill > > ________________________ > Jill Jones > www.jilljones.com.au > > Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press > http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" > To: > Cc: > Sent:Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:05:06 +0000 > Subject:Re: Snap: with magpie > > Like this Jill, particularly love the closing lines. > > Yes, your magpies aren't of the Crow family at all, and have a > syrinx, so > they can warble. Ours though are among the most intelligent of all > birds > and can often be found discussing Wittgenstein by the Mathematical > Bridge. > :) > > best > > David > > On 21 March 2018 at 01:10, Jill Jones wrote: > > > > > > > TIME WOULD CHOOSE > > > > > > > > what is the magpie searching for next to the path > > > > all this summer we’ve felt only dust > > > > > > > > a tree has fallen, its sap taken by drought’s gravity > > > > and there’s a mash of branches like a burst moon > > > > > > > > I trace ancient blur in the floating night > > > > those tiny points spilling from the galaxy’s breast > > > > > > > > the creek is torpid and smells like a sour sea > > > > the bushlands seem to crackle and splinter like bones > > > > > > > > I can tell myself its natural that everything dies > > > > but when is death a place or time you would choose > > > > > > > > to lie down together with the soil and the stone > > > > to give up the air and the song in your mouth > > > > > > > > rather be with sky like that magpie and dreaming > > > > rather be vagrant than something you’d own > > > > [Note: the words ending each line of this poem are also words > > ending > > lines of various poems I've been reading this week on not > dis-similar > > 'themes'] > > > > > > ________________________ > > Jill Jones > > www.jilljones.com.au > > > > Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press > > http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones > > > > > > >