Jill Jones

 

Elasticity


Whisper dry tracks,
veils, of ways
dream fuelled
like escapees.

I have my words,
their elasticity
connects skin,
the alive thought.

Magician!
The price of form.



To Speak in the Midst


Tonight the moon is nearly naked
water curves muddy, it tastes us

Dewy marble, jazz tugs, whispering you:
all forms of speech; woof, reptilian

Waiting beauty, layered walls, catch sky
drawing an end to the mind

To feel out, gliding by voice
anything but meaning’s high dark temptation

My tongue talks to your back
it’s not a series of stills

Something to live by, fibrous patterns
green interiors wait, secret skins shiver

Furniture expands and falls apart
do we want to be extraterrestrial?

The skeleton moves, it’s what’s left
all muscle moving, to speak, ‘thee’



Tear Through the Whole


The interval flames, matter opening
Winds change the road
You laugh, in order to feel air
the bird of the thing

Blue crawls through the loess
The tenets slip, you hope to escape
the force of breakdown
with which we worried

and these: the pouch of language
in violent space, feed of territory
muddle of air, collapse of topography
the end of output

Yet dark manuscripts escape
the interior animal, they
write to you from within designs
which tear through the whole

Load questions in the tongue’s worm hole
Take a walk in all directions, write them



 


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