I know that where you are is perfectly gorgeous, Jill, having visited
Adelaide once, many years ago.
Your poetry, transcendent, does the area proud, as it does us here.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Sheila.
>
> I'm having some 'as if' moments lately, in many senses.
>
> The depth of the sky, as well, which is much clearer in a small city with
> a less lit-up presence than Sydney, is one plus of being here.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
> On 08/10/2015, at 4:12 AM, Sheila Murphy wrote:
>
> > Jill, "as if," indeed. I like this. I like where it appears to come from.
> > It is a evocative of depth.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> some-else who has dialogues with machines
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Jill Jones
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 10:05 AM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: A Rising Snap
> >>
> >> A Rising
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> the sky’s getting close to Libra rising
> >>
> >> it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with balance or beauty
> >>
> >> is it a hustle, or a joke
> >>
> >> some kind of maintenance of the mundane
> >>
> >> another lie like any other lie
> >>
> >> whatever refusal or dance is needed
> >>
> >> as the wind suddenly turns into rain
> >>
> >> then just as suddenly subsides
> >>
> >> as necessity leads nowhere
> >>
> >> as effects are simply effects rather than evidence
> >>
> >> or a lead-in to an argument that might become reason
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> the fridge hums
> >>
> >> it’s not mimicking the brief rain, it’s a machine
> >>
> >> but for a moment it almost sounds like
> >>
> >> a comrade, like a passing train
> >>
> >> or tinnitus, blood, a pen writing across a page
> >>
> >> any sound you could befriend
> >>
> >> anything that sounds like some dialogue
> >>
> >> you imagined when you imagined
> >>
> >> walking out into the world
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> as if there were people
> >>
> >> as if trees grew out of deliberate earth
> >>
> >> and as if there was such a thing as singing
>
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