Published in Overland Issue 213 Summer 2013 · Uncategorized Jazz hands Jessica L Wilkinson they were really into sax back then – big mouthfuls of it – no strings – the dream was to coast about, recklessly finding favour in back alleyways fingers up and down as loose coins in the pocket – jingle rhythmic pitched high to the sway – but notes fall like people do and music gets in deep as a low C – sustained all practiced hands are quick to find that frantic riffs give out to calm – all alleys lead to open doors and love – like death – moves in Jessica L Wilkinson Jessica L Wilkinson’s latest book of poetry is Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine (Vagabond Press, 2019). She is the managing editor of Rabbit and an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at RMIT University. More by Jessica L Wilkinson › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 19 April 2024 · Friday Fiction Stilted J.E “Mahal” Cuya One hour after midnight. Everyone in rooms. Living room – dark. Table look like monsters. Like death. TV on stand. Netflix Logo. No one watching. Residents asleep. They have dementia. 18 April 202418 April 2024 · Education A Jellyfish government in NSW: public education’s privatisation-by-neglect Dan Hogan A private school that receives public money is not a private school: it is a fee-paying public school. The overfunding of private schools using public money is a symptom of a public service that has been rotted for a quarter of century by a political class with no vision beyond producing dubious, misleading statistics to deploy at the next election.