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Feb 2nd
game of cat and mouse this internet duck and dive run the gauntlet sink the slipper do not pass GO do not collect 100 LIKES do not glance...

JANE CLIFTON
Feb 101 min read
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Feb 1st
gotta pick and choose your deaths these days who to note who not to signify for those who are about to die we salute you as we shuffle...

JANE CLIFTON
Feb 101 min read
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Jan 31st
cutlery back in the rack dishes washed and stacked party’s over that’s a wrap back to normal one and one one and none when day is done...

JANE CLIFTON
Feb 101 min read
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Jan 30th
old friends flowing together down rivers of time up hill and down dale wine after wine and conversation tales of woe tales of laughter...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 311 min read
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Jan 29th
tiny device in the palm of my hand transports me back to a distant land a paddock out on the edge of town footage rarely glimpsed before...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 311 min read
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Jan 27th
Australia Day what does it signify a big lie a great contradiction in the terms of settlement a day to look around ask the question why?...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 311 min read
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Jan 26th
do you ever revisit lockdown lurks places we found in the nearby when we were forbidden to go very far by car I found myself drawn to my...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 311 min read
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Jan 23rd
can’t take it with you it has to go gotta throw from your sight and mind and focus on now what you need to keep afloat sink or swim step...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 311 min read
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Jan 22nd
hello cooler weather! ‘the coolth’ my mother used to say a chance to catch our breath get body and soul together for just a day enjoy...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 231 min read
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Jan 18th
this is a house of art an arts house on the delta sometimes I catch a riff of flute while I am at my easel or a thrum of bass will find...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 231 min read
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Jan 21st
tried a cartoon a bald polroon but could not nail the eyes too soft trustworthy no matter how I tried and that pleated mouth that prune-y...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 231 min read
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Jan 20th
the steamy days sweat by before the date when we display our wares our arty sprays of whimsy and of observation me and Jody Jay-Bird Bell...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 231 min read
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Jan 19th
bedside table strewn with pills and pens and pads thermometers and tissues pink antacids the hypochondriac defence against perhaps...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 231 min read
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Jan 17th
little Christmas tree you have come to me for life you are not plastic indestructible and you are not dead wood shedding, drying turning...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 191 min read
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Jan 16th
every morning look at Hockney’s Pictures then attempt to paint feel faint and insubstantial lumpen and cack-handed also brave inspired...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 191 min read
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Jan 14th
all those rich folk that you know the ones with jobs with plans with super and with structure they’re all outta town on hols here or...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 191 min read
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Jan 11th
blessed are we when visited by birds feasting nesting mating in our trees I say ‘our trees’ but they belong to no-one we just put a fence...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 141 min read
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Jan 3rd
Bob Daly left the world today well, not today day before yesterday on his birthday New Year’s Day of course he did that would be his way...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 141 min read
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Back on the Poem A Day tools
Here's one to start things off: Jan 10th Selfie Psycho crones like me don’t wannabe in selfies ‘Come on… Purleese!’ firm arms snake...

JANE CLIFTON
Jan 111 min read
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Fathers' Day
BURWOOD 2 Â father in the lounge leg crooked up on one knee cup of tea four sugars more pile of biscuits sliced Genoa brown apple core...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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