Ah trains !enjoyed this chat and poem Jill -I was actually on a train yesterday! visiting grandorts-something about being thrown together with people-everyone seems to be watching i-players/phones far away
Cheers P
Who once went on Melbourne's underground -Barcelona's is nice -London's pretty awful
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Thanks, Bill, comment appreciated - the stillness, or moment, in the movement, was something I was interested in.
J
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The opening two, perhaps three lines nail this poem for me, Jill. The sense of pre-ordained stillness within that shuffling movement.
Bill
> On 6 Nov 2014, at 6:59 am, Jill Jones wrote:
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> Good to hear you share my feeling about them. The Stockholm > underground (tunnelbana) isn't as extensive as classic networks such > as the Parisian metro, there are only three lines plus another set of > commuter lines, but my journeys on it are quite long getting to the > uni, and it is certainly packed at most times.
> In Adelaide I did not use a train for year; the system is not big > either, but I am so glad now our house in Adelaide is on a train line.
> It feels as if my world is right again.
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> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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> I absolutely love trains, Jill, and feel that in such motion there is > a > release that brings about a great opening for creating. You've done a > gorgeous job here.
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>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
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>> Many thanks, Sheila. There is something about the moments and > movement >> of trains, especially underground systems. Coupled with the fact of >> signs advertising a new production of Strindberg's Dance of Death.
>> Which could be worth getting a ticket for, except it is in Swedish.
>> Jill
>> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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>> Jill, I find this moving as a moment in time that encompasses all >> tenses.
>> Thank you for this. Lovely. Sheila
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>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
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>>> THE DANCE
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>>> Minutes hover in trains, everything is >>> >>> a forecast from an old future >>> >>> the new one is still variable in the making >>> >>> a misremembered song from the past >>> >>> the girl opposite is nodding her dreamy head >>> >>> you are receiving from the year of your birth >>> >>> of your death, dying on trains while >>> >>> the ordnings vakt guys stand by preserving >>> >>> old acts of impurity in the name you clean with >>> >>> among the tall houses on the east side >>> >>> everyone watches to see what kind of soul >>> >>> emerges, grey answers, double delicious >>> >>> is it about amnesty, painted rainbows >>> >>> reading suspended clocks on the red line >>> >>> the d dsdansen around the doors >>> >>> >>> ________________________ >>> Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au > >
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