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On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 07:30, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Here's a little something I wrote after having to bury a bird
> yesterday:
>
> Even when the mind
> is homeless
> the world is there real and difficult
> We can’t understand
> all we touch but we must talk
> about it
> The bird I just buried had a home
> I’m not giving it a home
> or rest
> Its feathers and bones part severally
> Here’s one category for such a bird
> Grallina cyanoleuca
> One of the ways we know
> what we don’t know
> Or writing it down is another
> ‘I buried the peewee
> so desiccated I couldn’t tell
> its age or sex.
> One of its wings had parted
> from the rest.’
> The soil is so much drier
> this year
> These things
> irrevocable
> fantastical perilous
> Where we’re going
> we don’t understand
> but we know this happens
> When they bury me burn me
> finally homeless
> home
> (if there’s a small garden
> of feathers
> a large god of dust)
>
> ___________________________________________Jill Jones
> Latest book, Viva the Real, from UQP
> https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1473/Viva%20the%20Real
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