Thanks, Andrew. It's hung round for many weeks. Now my partner has
come down with it. A vicious virus.
Cheers,
Jill
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www.jilljones.com.au
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Get well, Jill
Andrew
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On 28 September 2017 at 09:47, Jill Jones wrote:
> Thanks, Doug. Appreciate what you picked up therein.
>
> I chose the compressed 5 line form to do that - quick and slow at
the
> same time.
>
> And then as well as now, as then is always in now.
>
> Of course, there are specific Aus things from this week referenced
but
> I'm happy if it doesn't need to be obvious to the other side of the
> world.
>
> However, if anyone is interested and doesn't know the context of
some
> of this, here's a 'news item' - I use the word loosely as one does
> these days - which explains some of the context.
>
> Warning: in case it offends you, it contains the 'c' word more than
> once, and some other 'strong' language (Yeah, Straya. Sometimes, ya
> gotta laugh):
> https://wwwpedestrian.tv/news/the-man-who-allegedly-
> headbutted-tony-abbott-confirmed-it-was-not-about-ssm/
>
> 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, 27 Sep 2017 11:48:50 -0600
> Subject:Re: Snap: This Week's Pour
>
> It maybe moves quickly through those short lines, Jill, but it
slows
> the (this) reader down, to think (about).
>
> And to think into how words do it.
>
> Then as well as now, which I thought an import of the piece.
>
> Doug
>
> > On Sep 27, 2017, at 5:48 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
> >
> > Well, I am ill at the moment. It obviously knows
> >
> > J
> >
> > ________________________
> > 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, 27 Sep 2017 09:35:56 +0100
> > Subject:Re: Snap: This Week's Pour
> >
> > hi Jill cheers from a selfstyled elderly poet
> >
> > spell check is trying to change Jill to ill!!!
> >
> > On 27/09/2017 09:13, Jill Jones wrote:
> >> Hi Patrick,
> >> Haha. But this refers to a real incident this week in Aus
> involving
> > an exPM and a selfstyled anarchist DJ.
> >>
> >> J
> >>
> >> Sent from BlueMail
> >>
> >> On 27 Sep. 2017, 5:37 pm, at 5:37 pm, Patrick McManus wrote:
> >>> Jill thanks funny thing when I was reading it thought (not you
of
> >>> course!)
> >>>
> >>> A Poet surrounds
> >>> you with
> >>> ridiculous thinking
> >>> someone simply
> >>> wants to punch you out
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 27/09/2017 00:15, Jill Jones wrote:
> >>>> This Week’s Pour
> >>>>
> >>>> The world pours
> >>>> out over the
> >>>> world which
> >>>> pours out
> >>>> further than
> >>>>
> >>>> As if a subscription
> >>>> extended life
> >>>> as levitation
> >>>> or something obviously
> >>>> visible
> >>>>
> >>>> As if we bring
> >>>> the little we
> >>>> shoulder as if
> >>>> the sun sang on
> >>>> something important
> >>>>
> >>>> A DJ surrounds
> >>>> you with
> >>>> ridiculous thinking
> >>>> someone simply
> >>>> wants to punch you out
> >>>>
> >>>> As if the ‘sudden’ is
> >>>> the way life is
> >>>> apparent, what grows
> >>>> offspring
> >>>> or exceptions
> >>>>
> >>>> A word prolongs
> >>>> how it feels
> >>>> and extends
> >>>> same-same as a way
> >>>> of working distinct
> >>>>
> >>>> Words, not as
> >>>> rhymes but
> >>>> unearthing
> >>>> provenances
> >>>> moving through gaps
> >>>>
> >>>> That is, imagine
> >>>> refugees, storms, evidence
> >>>> or all these relations
> >>>> plucked as thought
> >>>> via questions
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press)
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>
> There was the usual amount of corruption, intimidation, and
rioting.
>
> Sir Charles Petrie
>
>
--
Andrew
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