JILL JONES









The Futures

To
learn branch
secret wood’s sadness

day
finishes me
approximately in fog

fire’s
speech method
impossible outside time

how
much is
polished extinguished distant

ask
here future
with each colour

brush
inflects error
the white plenty








On form

as if it's form that matters
pick peeling plaster from the wall
what? my lines span in skin
cars fit the street sometimes gingerly
no right angles here ask perfection
broke branches maple light cries in
coins by size count in journeys
your curves will always detain me
then I turn out to clouds









 











Jill Jones’
latest books are Broken/Open (Salt, 2005) and Fold Unfold (Vagabond, 2005). Work has recently appeared in The Drunken Boat, Meanjin, and Otoliths. She maintains a blog called Ruby Street.








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