Jill Jones

1. Willows are drinking again in the thickness they begin and progress somewhat peculiarly, there’s wanting in the melting honeydew. Would I be bored by a drained windswept pool? What more could I eat beside it? But come, ride me in triple nightmare to a funeral as if responsible for something: lights, water ruffled and filled to our roots in the sea. 2. To have left scarcely a trace of pain behind what kind of knowledge is that? nor is it complete to this day. The doors and windows were torn from their frames what kind of intensities? the first shadow on the glamour. Thriving on the unburied bodies more present than ever a city that did not exist before. 3. Stood shivering in a night. Was that mistaken? An atmosphere snug enough at the other end of the line. Upsetting the glass there was plenty of time to drink up as usual as though afraid of being heard. When a door opened. Transcriptions Number one Three books by poets chosen off the shelf: Janet Frame, The Pocket Mirror Alice Notley, Selected Poems Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida Method: 1. Choose three lines, one each in turn until there are nine, using 1st line from first poem in Borson book, second from second poem in Notley book, third line from third poem in Frame book, fourth line from fourth poem in Borson book etc (skipping poems with not enough lines) 2. Readjust punctuation, grammar and rewrite minimally. Number Two Three books of prose chosen off the shelf: W.G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction Susan Sontag, Where the Stress Falls Joan Didion, Where I Was from 1. Choose three phrases/lines, one each in turn until there are nine, using 1st paragraph from first chapter/section in Sebald book, second from second essay in Sontag book, third from third chapter in Didion book, fourth from fourth/section chapter in Sebald book etc (skipping quotes from other writers in the works) 2. Readjust punctuation only. Number Three Three books by Georges Simenon chosen from the pile: The Strangers in the House Maigret and the Idle Burglar Monsieur Monde Vanishes Method: 1. Choose three lines/phrases, one each in turn, 1st line from first paragraph of 1st book listed, etc until there are nine etc (skipping paragraphs with not enough lines and skipping short bursts of dialogue) 2. Readjust punctuation, grammar and rewrite minimally.