Jill Jones

'any text, translated or not, is soaked in the unwritten'. oh yes!

Emily— …
‘Diadems — drop — and Doges — surrender —
Soundless as dots — on a Disc of Snow —‘

Life ‘out of nowhere’ at the ‘scraping of midnight’: two illustrious poets illuminate the times Where the poetry of David Brooks and Jill Jones intersects is their detailing of domestic life and drawing attention to environmental changes.

Where the poetry of David Brooks and Jill Jones intersects is their detailing of domestic life and drawing attention to environmental changes.

Yes, in mine as well.

Muriel Rukeyser, ‘Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)’:
“…Most mornings I would be more or less insane,
The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories,
The news would pour out of various devices…”

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

From 'May, 1972' by James Schuyler:
"... Here, a silent scream/Can we, in simple justice,/desert our sought allies?/Draw out: I do not know./ I know the war is wrong./We have it in us/to triumph over hate and/death, or so/the suburban spring suggests …"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Yes, am here testing the waters, or the blue skies. :-)

There's not a lot of light around at the moment, but I found this at my feet while standing at the tram stop.