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Jill Jones

Graft

Carpet becomes grafted onto
your dream, and stinks up
the night worse than
relics, mould is a sign
of weather, weather is
a sign of fortune
bad or whatever.
The money stinks, gold
scuffed and not brighter than
a thousand debts.

If snow filled the room
it would be no more
dangerous than
a lifetime paying
it all back
with grift that soaks
into the fibre
the story, the wild footsteps
in a scene you can't
forget when you
post yourself awake.



Song For Flight

Flickbags of words.
Snowdomes of retail atrophy.
Families with values
you can't repeat.

Synthetic tunnels.
Money in your arm.
A ceiling fan chirruping
a love song for a backyard.
Who needs lines of flight?



Time Scythes

It's happening for those
whose adrenalin leads you
it so destroys.

It might for those dancing as
make perfumes
in time more sharp who
walk in the length
of your rising by spirit field, your
rising out of variances
not heroes.

Take down the broken
dead, what silent love America
Australia, Britannia have confessed
in fresh foolish gadgets
reign the length of captured
images I try to love.
My access sticks more.

Why then, love, you're filming
my hands in correspondence
with nothing but
my repose needing mend.

Shake these hands.
Help at random.



Swerves

What are they doing
with the spoon?
Why isn't the chair
more comfortable?
What is on the page?
Is this a timetable
or a certificate?

Spit it out.
Eat it again.
It begins to taste
like blood after
the third time. If only
someone would hold
your hand like a friend.

True or False?
It's all in the curve.



Here It Is

All the squares full
of cheap tricks, free
coming tongue
unrepresented in dark
to cure the ail
of wages and what you
must cop you
swallow, you take
you give to glisten.

The moon has a dead
heart shining
for ever
smell the ground.



Say Is Burning

Now there's the office of missiles
and astronomy sitting above
times full of sleep too short
all afloat in what's acceptable.

All hues seem in order
my deepest sense sorry
with mud and a lot of
thoughts and old words

as they do compare
the very posterity of drugs
with the weather channel
the drugs I need not this century

some say is burning
is going as carefully
as working. Did feel. Now.



Being Occupied

Do you make eyes to think?
What sport brought you out here?
Is it better to sleep in leaves
and smell smoky trees
or reduce the room to points
on a continuum like shares
a white sheet you can't write upon?

The curricula were made for you?
Is that correct, is that froth?
Do you like or unlike?
Are you countable as oil-wells?
Could you burn the percentage
or join another taskforce?

Prepare for arson, stray sergeants,
in the meantime relax
with dots and cones.
Horses wait on the bitumen.
No-one wants to hurt them.
But turn their badges round.



Is There Time?

Where kids sharpen in
rain and incapable I live
on a month of frost
even onto second-hand gravel
gutters look with intelligence.

I sweetly chide dolls
released from last night.
They see others do good, one
day it is said we are all going
to sleep on it.

How can we mend
constructed things?



After Memoriams

Closing time debates the
patterned pain nor can
songs necessary whisper
always write horizon
travelling and currents.

Take better joy.
Take water's thousand.
This book of night stings
over wrack into my mind
can set new travelling
thus hard true.



Choices

Audit the fog but who will
stop the tunnel?
Choose from this
a charter with fugitives
undivided on grace.

Three words richer in a jet
on our own sweet take
when we two mourning red
find the unswept stone.

Find truth among tension
whose lines
author no more order
if through the flame to
make a boat which the
bettering of shouts loving
and make some freshly
unlettered feather.


Jill Jones is an Australian poet who has published seven full-length books of poetry including Ash is Here, So are Stars (Walleah Press 2012), Dark Bright Doors (Wakefield Press 2010), and Broken/Open (Salt Publishing 2005). She has also published chapbooks including Senses Working Out (Vagabond 2012), and Struggle and Radiance: Ten Commentaries (Wild Honey 2004). A new e-chapbook, even if the signal fails, is due from Black Rider Press in early 2013. She edited, with Michael Farrell, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets (Puncher & Wattmann 2009). She has collaborated with photographer, Annette Willis, and other visual and sound artists on a number of multi-media projects, which have been presented at various festivals and events in Australia, NZ and the UK.


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