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On 18 October 2017 at 10:15, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Singing Lawn T-shirts
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> Scraggy lawns sing, dust
> rises from barbecues, kids in pink
> t-shirts skinny up walls
> someone’s tending weeds and fake grass
> maybe all this grass
> is fake, there’s no harmony, though
> it seems pleasant despite meaty
> smoke, the cheers, the competition
> with winter moss and driveways, with
> another country, with cute white statues
> concrete in cracks, sovereignty
> of swooping birds, unknowingness
> false curiosity, islands
> of indifference in the way you might
> see your body here and where
> or what you should return to, a mythical
> fence, your pink t-shirt, dirty now
> laughing in a dream country
> a far, a way, but where
> the clouds look a little like here
> and everyone’s playing or holding hands
> or sitting round a fire, singing
> with the evening dust, sniffing the air
> for change
>
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> Jill Jones
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> Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
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Andrew
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