Jill, I find this moving as a moment in time that encompasses all tenses.
Thank you for this. Lovely. Sheila
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> THE DANCE
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> Minutes hover in trains, everything is
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> a forecast from an old future
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> the new one is still variable in the making
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> a misremembered song from the past
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> the girl opposite is nodding her dreamy head
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> ‘you are receiving from the year’ of your birth
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> of your death, dying on trains while
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> the ordnings vakt guys stand by preserving
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> old acts of impurity in the name you clean with
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> among the tall houses on the east side
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> everyone watches to see what kind of soul
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> emerges, grey answers, double delicious
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> is it about amnesty, painted rainbows
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> reading suspended clocks on the red line
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> the dödsdansen around the doors
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> Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
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