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brilliant L On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 07:30, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Here's a little something I wrote after having to bury a bird > yesterday: > > Even when the mind > is homeless > the world is there real and difficult > We can’t understand > all we touch but we must talk > about it > The bird I just buried had a home > I’m not giving it a home > or rest > Its feathers and bones part severally > Here’s one category for such a bird > Grallina cyanoleuca > One of the ways we know > what we don’t know > Or writing it down is another > ‘I buried the peewee > so desiccated I couldn’t tell > its age or sex. > One of its wings had parted > from the rest.’ > The soil is so much drier > this year > These things > irrevocable > fantastical perilous > Where we’re going > we don’t understand > but we know this happens > When they bury me burn me > finally homeless > home > (if there’s a small garden > of feathers > a large god of dust) > > ___________________________________________Jill Jones > Latest book, Viva the Real, from UQP > https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1473/Viva%20the%20Real > Jill on Twitter > https://twitter.com/_jill_jones > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > -- I send out a newsletter between 10 and 12 times a year which gives brief information on developments in my work, especially publication. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, send an email to newsletter at lawrenceupton.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1