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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 13, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 12, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 11, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 10, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 9, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 8, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 7, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 6, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 5, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Aug 4, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Jun 28, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
Jun 13, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
May 26, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
May 24, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
May 22, 20201 min read
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#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...

JANE CLIFTON
May 19, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
May 10, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
May 10, 20201 min read
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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...

JANE CLIFTON
May 7, 20201 min read
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Poem #6
May 2nd OVIDOVIC COVID OVID OCD metamorphosis on TV ID megov tracker trakcer COVID 19 cyber hacker live stream zoom office bedroom work...

JANE CLIFTON
May 5, 20201 min read
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