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
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