States of Poetry - Poems
States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Bent' by Jill Jones
by Jill Jones •
I am history now
in the scales, the age of sounds
I make sense then drop it
it gets dirty, it breaks
the ants carry it
I am bent at the switch
my tapes of the archive
decay, loops stutter
glitch arias
I am bent at the floor
facts roll under the chair
little dust songs
or songs outside
the parrots know
and I am still my species
struck, listening
Jill Jones