Hi Doug, Many thanks. I'm glad the 'rumour' chimed. I'm interested in
the ancient and new of augury in poetry, at the moment, and the
possibilities still in that - slantwise, of course.
Jill
___________________________________________Jill Jones
Latest book, Viva the Real, from UQP, shortlisted for 2019 Prime
Minister's Literary Awards
https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1473/Viva%20the%20Real
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What Sheila says, Jill, but also the sense of rumour, of being told
about one’s own future, bones into shell, rock, sand, the eternal
earth Which doesn’t acre, goes on, & we are lodged & dislodged
there. It moves in quirks, wonderfully.
Doug
> On Oct 1, 2019, at 7:05 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
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>
>
> OF WHAT I’LL BECOME
>
> So some may say everything falls
>
> cities & repute summer apricots
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> a small white plate
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> rain on the gulf
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> The rough is more than smooth
>
> light is no more fleet than time
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> in fact –
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> Some say this glass on the shore
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> is sharp or smooth
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> rough as broken stone holds light
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> as it holds time
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> Some say that tide
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> is running out then
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> back upon us
>
> But who are we as
>
> plastic beings
>
> shells shaped around ventricles
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> & nodes blood polymer
>
> simple fear –
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> Among this winter kelp these shadows
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> on the sand pressed by futures & storms
>
> __________________________________________Jill Jones
> Latest book, Viva the Real, from UQPshortlisted for 2019 Prime
> Minister's Literary Awards
> https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1473/Viva%20the%20Real
> Jill on Twitter
> https://twitter.com/_jill_jones
>
>
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