You forget everything is attached to wires.
Getting up sometimes does work.
Rain drops inside.
The morning parrots are night’s ghosts, rearranging.
(To have gone away or reframed the problem.)
There’s music on the road: pick it up! it sings.
Better to have let the cats out.
Needing no locks. Then kiss me!
Even the trains need to rest.
We should get drunk more often and hold hands.
Jill Jones’ latest book is How To Emerge (Vagabond Press, 2025). Her previous book, Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems, was short-listed for the 2024 John Bray Poetry Prize, long-listed for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and commended in the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. Her work has been widely published in most of the leading literary periodicals in Australia as well as in a number of print and online magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain, the Czech Republic, France and India. She edited, with Michael Farrell, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets.
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