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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 14, 20201 min read
CURFEW 11
DAY 11 – Aug 13 calling out around the world… knock three times… twice on the pipe if you ain’t gonna show … periscope closes over radio...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 13, 20201 min read
CURFEW 10
DAY 10 – Aug 12 the corporate world spins to a halt we turn at once to art to what’s important what flows from the heart simple things...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 12, 20201 min read
CURFEW 9
DAY 9 – Aug 11 decided lack of zip today sometime the leaden wave of stasis is too hard to crest almost bereft of simple human contact...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 11, 20201 min read
CURFEW 8
DAY 8 – Aug 10 one week gone already in a flash and five short weeks to go the days file past like soldiers neither fast nor slow but at...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 10, 20201 min read
CURFEW 7
DAY 7 – Aug 9 great news! everyone’s an expert who knew we had so many friends with expertise so beyond clever they never bothered with...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 9, 20201 min read
CURFEW 6
DAY 6 – Aug 8 the fruit and veg at Highpoint quiet as a library rocks a new respect for queuing and a lot less squeezy touchy feely of...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 8, 20201 min read
CURFEW 5
DAY 5 – Aug 7 I just sneezed… Is that it? No! some dust I really have to blow my nose… Is that it? No! bit teary, lachrymose I feel too...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 7, 20201 min read
CURFEW DAY 4
DAY 4 – Aug 6 hands to the lectern every day shoulders squared glasses fixed to face the fray say the words he has to say he knows will...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 6, 20201 min read
CURFEW 3
DAY 3 – Aug 5 everything must be re-sized 5K radius 1.5 the distance between me and you in the supermarket queue is marked out clearly on...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 5, 20201 min read
CURFEW DAY 2
DAY 2 – Aug 4 forty-two days forty-one nights to go there’s snow and hail and harsh winds blow and no-one’s getting caught in showers...
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JANE CLIFTON
Aug 4, 20201 min read
CURFEW
New task: to write a poem a day under Melbourne curfew 2020. DAY 1 – Aug 3 fewer curs that’s what’s needed in these new cursed lockdown...
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JANE CLIFTON
Jun 28, 20201 min read
Poems #14
Seems timely to revisit The Dick. This poem, written as a homage at the end of #metoo 2018, sprang to mind in the light of last week's...
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JANE CLIFTON
Jun 13, 20201 min read
Poems#13
In the light of recent events here are a couple from 2 years ago (included in A Day At A Time In Rhyme) and, somehow, even more relevant...
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JANE CLIFTON
May 25, 20201 min read
Poem#12...just a little green...
May 24th RAVEN MAVENS every week I see you in your jaunty fashion shoots standing sitting sideways smirking on that chair with that hair...
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JANE CLIFTON
May 24, 20201 min read
Thank you note...
Thank you, everyone, for all the messages of love and support last week. Particularly to all the first-time visitors to this site and all...
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JANE CLIFTON
May 21, 20201 min read
Poem #11
March 19th BLOOD RIVER unlucky street beside the river three houses in a row three mothers who lost sons one to madness one to death and...
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JANE CLIFTON
May 19, 20201 min read
#Poem 10
May 19th LA MAMA a building burns history goes up in smoke like Alexander’s library a rebuild will not bring it back it’s good bye to...
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JANE CLIFTON
May 10, 20201 min read
Poem #9
May 10th LAMENT do you think of me today son do I cross your mind should you find yourself at someone else’s celebration tea do you take...
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JANE CLIFTON
May 10, 20201 min read
Poem #8
May 8th IN A STEW blokes cooking up a storm alone in the kitchen in the zone by the stove with the camera and the crew cooking surgically...
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JANE CLIFTON
May 7, 20201 min read
Poem #7
May 6th HELL ‘l’enfer, c’est les autres’ so this should be heaven right wrong, Jean Paul Sartre we miss them like hell all those others...
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