Published in Overland Issue 230 Autumn 2018 · Uncategorized Mouth form flower Jill Jones Let fault flaw Let the fence fall Let’s flabbergast the goal with tongues Let debacle warp in dawn Let beginning bury end Let a hundred pods hush Let the mouth form flower Let flesh flash Let’s lick plethora Let erosion jabber in the gown Let’s find fit and make do Let’s sieve without crashing Let debris fill rust Let myriad dapple and draw Let’s spurn our quote marks Let’s trick death perception Let limit out Let not mere quintessentials Let wreckless wreck more Let cloth drop Let’s lay waste the hours Let’s not say Let a thousand errors bloom Read the rest of Overland 230 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Jill Jones Jill Jones lives and works on unceded Kaurna land. Her latest book is Wild Curious Air, winner of the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. In 2015 she won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety. Her work is widely published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, NZ, Singapore, Sweden, UK, and USA and has been translated into a number of languages. She has worked as an academic, arts administrator, journalist, and book editor. More by Jill Jones › 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 15 May 2026 · Friday Fiction The structure Dominic Carew We made it to the park by eight. The winter sun was filtering through the far trees in a wan, lemon trickle, the thin clouds sheets of white. The cool sky a rubbed-at blue. The grass squelched beneath our feet and elsewhere, thinned from wear, the earth stretched grassless and muddy and, in some parts, released a thick mist. 8 May 202611 May 2026 · Nakata Brophy Prize The 2026 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers (Poetry) Editorial Team Please follow this link to enter the prize. Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 […]
