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Thanks, Patrick. Yes, the past .... ________________________ 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, 14 Mar 2018 09:23:08 +0000 Subject:Re: Night Walking Snap ah that wanting -and the past thanks P On 14/03/2018 09:00, Bill Wootton wrote: > Quite beautiful I think, Jill, especially those gracious line turns. > Strained moonlight, loss, it’s all there. > > Bill > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 at 7:22 pm, Jill Jones wrote: > >> >> THE UN-MARVELLING >> >> >> >> >> >> How strange was last night, I beheld your face, electric >> >> with thought along with my unrest, alight and hollow >> >> when the night trees shivered and the block >> >> we walked seemed more cluttered than the road >> >> we used to walk, where every little plot >> >> and fence was tended, maybe we were too narrow >> >> maybe we lost our hunger then to care or look >> >> to stare at stars, to forget the way we marvelled >> >> how their brightness could also seem soft >> >> and how the moonlight would seem to strain >> >> through the canopy no matter how intense or thick >> >> how this strange loveliness may never come again >> >> how I wanted something - something I never quite got >> >> ________________________ >> Jill Jones >> www.jilljones.com.au >> >> Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press >> http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones >> >> >>