Adele Ogiér Jones
What is to be said
about a new address book
standing bold
next to three in line
old, tattered, crossed-out
whitened-over versions,
about people who move on, pass away
and separate,
about friendships which melt
into acquaintances,
about chance meetings
which never develop
but might have,
about children of partners who beget
their own and go on to new lives
out of reach and contact
beyond need and desire
now interest has gone.
What does it say
about the simple gift of friendship
with those in old address books
about the value of a greeting,
gifts sent by word
in a poem or brief story
from life, rejoicing again
encounters,
about a meeting
on a day like every other
still treasured
in some special way.
Writing creatively as Ogiér Jones, Adele is a Melbourne poet who works and lives, most often, internationally. She has four collections of poetry published by Ginninderra Press (GP) including From the Edge of the Pacific (2012), chapbooks in the GP Pocket Poets series, and a new trilogy of poetry with Picaro Poets – From the Attic, In the Atelier, At the Gallery (2021). She appears in numerous e-journals and print anthologies including Lothlorien Poetry Journal (2021), Milestones (Ginninderra Press, 2021), Poetry for the Planet (Litoria Press, 2021), and The Trawler 2021 (Gloucester Poetry Society).
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