Jill Jones

b. Sydney, Australia   

Jill Jones’ most recent book is Dark Bright Doors (Wakefield Press, 2010). She won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2003 and the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. In 2009 she co-edited with Michael Farrell, an anthology, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann). She lives in Adelaide.

Website: http://www.jilljones.com.au

Blog: http://rubystreet.blogspot.com  

shanti:e

 

rivers past rails/rolled

delta to sea strophes

corded weeds and shadow

 

wave keening flower plumes

on domes in extremity

lithe sextants courting limits

 

down walls and ribbon rain

colour lights/crashed bruise

salt swale and kiss

 

you held the blows thunder

spilt gulf in the main

latitudes splinter harvest

 

rock is part/under

scattered by bells

rock gain    risen    come

 

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