Shred
Jill Jones
Cloud sounds. Vary
the. Filter shreds.
That hover. Window
from. Gravel weather.
Window from. Or
GMO. Or blue.
Filter shreds. Bark
to. Drought ground.
Horse tails. That
hover. Trucked past.
Gravel weather. What
kind. What kind.
Horse tails. For
feral. Bird removal.
Bird removal. Bird
blue. Trick fields.
GMO locust. Mouse
hover. Bark drought.
Some years. Grounds
locust. Mouse you.
Drive through. Summer
what. Kind some.
Years what. Kind.
Horse tails. That
hover. Window from.
That trick. Of
fields. Not GMO.
Vary the. Cloud
sound. Or blue.
Filter shreds. Wherein
some. Years you.
Drive through. Kind
as. Leaves blue.
Bark summer. Trucked
past. Horse tails.
Filter shreds. Forecast
fails. Vary the.
Filter shreds. Clouds
Jill Jones’ most recent books are The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher and Wattmann, 2014) and Ash is Here, So are Stars (Walleah Press, 2012). Her work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Polish, French, Italian and Spanish, and has featured in a number of anthologies including The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella. In 2014 she was poet-in-residence at Stockholm University. Recent work has been published in Cordite, Vlak, Plumwood Mountain, Truck, Sugarmule, Jacket2, Qarrtsiluni and Australian Poetry Journal. She lives in Adelaide.
