Jill Jones' most recent book Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems. Her work has appeared in Arc, Blackbox Manifold, Jacket2, The Manchester Review, Meanjin, Poetry, Poetry Review, Shearsman, Softblow, The Stinging Fly, takahē, Two Thirds North, and other periodicals in Australia, Canada, Ireland, NZ, Sweden, Singapore, UK, and USA.

Jill Jones

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A Mouthful of Cold Days

Steam releases faint flags
above the curve of
a stainless steel tap

A weight of degrees
sinks through long
metres of cloud

Fog ruins in my eye

I push the atmosphere
with a blue flame

At the window light twists

A wheel across a field