A Warm Day
by Jill Jones
I walk from one memory
held on my arm
to another told
like the sea.
I walk from one time
that counts itself
to another unwound
and is turning.
How far back?
Past the reef
past the mound
where rocks once grew
memory–the faint star
Jill Jones is a poet and writer who was born in Sydney and currently works in Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of six full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks. Her work has been widely published in most of the leading literary periodicals in Australia as well as in a number of print and online magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain, the Czech Republic, France and India.