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Thanks, Doug. I guess the hemispherical shift can seem out of kilter. Had a conversation about this last night with a friend whose original and relatively recent home was Scotland. But thanks for those observations. I wanted a shift/movement and the filmic metaphor is one I'm happy to take. Best, 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, 4 Apr 2018 08:54:07 -0600 Subject:Re: Snap: Time Circles and Nectar Wow, welcome back Andrew. Take your time. And Jill, not o much a snap as a film, I’d say a kind of documentary, with lots of commentary, all wonderfully speculative looking in & out. (Of course, your mention of ‘winter’ on that continent makes us, still surrounded by snowplough a bit). I like the extensive shifts of perspective from bee to moon etc, & time as stretchable perhaps, especially as we have used more of it, up; & so the meditating I/eye (as Andrew perceived) has mohave its continuing say.. Doug > On Apr 4, 2018, at 8:11 AM, Andrew Burke wrote: > > Clear little meditative poem, Jill. I like it. > > My view of time has just shifted - this afternnon I arrived home out of > hospital with my 3rd heart attack. I will value each hour more than ever! > > Andrew > > On 4 April 2018 at 16:55, Bill Wootton wrote: > >> I too, die each summer, which endures well into autumn these days, Jill. I >> like the series of time ruminations from moon to bee here. Also the sense >> of time ‘on display’ as it were. >> >> Bill >> >> On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 at 1:48 pm, Jill Jones wrote: >> >>> Time Circles and Nectar >>> >>> What is time? >>> ‘We have to turn the clocks >>> back tonight.’ >>> We gain an hour. >>> But we know we don’t. >>> Hours aren’t time. >>> I watch a bee on the paver. >>> I think it’s dying. >>> Its last day, last minute? >>> It turns and turns >>> time circles, death circles. >>> >>> Above there’s a daylight moon >>> near full. It’s been there >>> a long time, hanging around space. >>> Moon time and bee time >>> are different and the same. >>> When your time’s up, it’s up. >>> Up till now the year >>> has been tiring. >>> >>> ‘The light looks different >>> in winter.’ It does but how. >>> Lower, softer maybe. >>> Or mellow and aching. >>> They say it’s to be >>> a warm dry autumn >>> then a cold winter. >>> It’s time it rained >>> so ground can be more >>> subtle, our skins >>> more tender. >>> >>> We’ve remade the garden >>> so our plants can tolerate >>> drought. So they’re less >>> like dying paper. >>> I’ve lived all my life >>> on this old dry continent. >>> I still can’t tolerate drought. >>> I die each summer. >>> We got rid of most of >>> the exotics, the plants >>> of the north. Roses were >>> never sensible, only beautiful >>> within that sensual breath >>> so lush and transient. >>> >>> I watch the bee. >>> It’s a native bee. >>> All bees love the nectar >>> whether rose nectar >>> callistemon nectar >>> gum nectar, apricot nectar >>> It’s all sweet like >>> the thought of time. >>> No, that’s bittersweet. >>> It never stops. One day >>> I will stop hanging round >>> here. >>> >>> I see time’s wave, shivering >>> up there in gum leaves >>> feel its particles compress >>> under my feet near where >>> the bee moves. >>> They’re predicting another >>> cyclone in the Top End >>> and ex-Tropical Cyclone Iris >>> is still mashing >>> Queensland beaches. >>> While down here >>> around me, I almost believe >>> I can smell the bush’s >>> old honey, the lost strains >>> of rose petal, the life cycle >>> of eucalypt sap. >>> I leave the bee to what >>> continues to happen. >>> >>> ________________________ >>> Jill Jones >>> www.jilljones.com.au >>> >>> Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press >>> http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > Books available through Walleah Press > http://walleahpress.com.au Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). Listen. If (UofAPress): There is no real world, my friends. Why not, then let the stars shine in our bones? Robert Kroetsch