I like this too, Jill, a wild ride. From singing lawns to cloudy dreams via
lots of pink.
Do you think fake weeds are a chance to crop up?
Bill
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 6:46 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> Thanks Jill
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> l a lot going on here -it is about present then past ?
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> fake grass !!meaty smoke compared to sniffing clean?air
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> repeating pink does that relate the two -cheers From ancient Patrick
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> ps Spellcheck has a lot of suggestions for changing you name a found
> poem in itself-
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> On 18/10/2017 03:15, Jill Jones wrote:
> > Singing Lawn T-shirts
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ________________________
> > Jill Jones
> > www.jilljones.com.au
> >
> > Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
> > http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
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> >
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