thanks for comments Jill Tim Bill on this world poetry day perhaps we
should be dressed up !!!
yes it was real !!
On 21/03/2018 11:37, Jill Jones wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Yes, I've seen those European magpies. - a bit of blue tinge to the
> black, it seemed to me. Ours black/black and white. Also noisy, but
> they have lovely warbly songs.
>
> Jill
>
> ________________________
> Jill Jones
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> Subject:Re: Snap: with magpie
>
> thanks Jill all very dry! we have lovely magpies here -can get noisy
>
> On 21/03/2018 01:10, Jill Jones wrote:
> >
> > TIME WOULD CHOOSE
> >
> >
> >
> > what is the magpie searching for next to the path
> >
> > all this summer we’ve felt only dust
> >
> >
> >
> > a tree has fallen, its sap taken by drought’s gravity
> >
> > and there’s a mash of branches like a burst moon
> >
> >
> >
> > I trace ancient blur in the floating night
> >
> > those tiny points spilling from the galaxy’s breast
> >
> >
> >
> > the creek is torpid and smells like a sour sea
> >
> > the bushlands seem to crackle and splinter like bones
> >
> >
> >
> > I can tell myself its natural that everything dies
> >
> > but when is death a place or time you would choose
> >
> >
> >
> > to lie down together with the soil and the stone
> >
> > to give up the air and the song in your mouth
> >
> >
> >
> > rather be with sky like that magpie and dreaming
> >
> > rather be vagrant than something you’d own
> >
> > [Note: the words ending each line of this poem are also words
> ending
> > lines of various poems I've been reading this week on not
> dis-similar
> > 'themes']
> >
> >
> > ________________________
> > Jill Jones
> > www.jilljones.com.au
> >
> > Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
> > http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
> >
> >
>
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