{"id":28256,"date":"2015-02-24T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28256"},"modified":"2015-02-22T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T22:06:57","slug":"the-tuesday-poem-focusing-on-tim-jones-the-stars-natasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/the-tuesday-poem-focusing-on-tim-jones-the-stars-natasha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuesday Poem: Focusing On Tim Jones & “The stars Natasha”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The stars, Natasha<\/strong><\/p>\n

Natasha, fundamentals are strong,
\nkey indicators steady.
\nLeave your books, Natasha,
\nlet your computer
\ndraw patterns on its screen.<\/p>\n

Walk with me through the heavens.
\nAlong cold orbits
\nthe spendthrift stars
\nsquander their assets on light.
\nThe World Bank<\/p>\n

is unamused; the IMF
\nis noting down their names.
\nSo take my hand
\nlet\u2019s drift away
\ninto the cosmic background.<\/p>\n

\u00a9Tim Jones<\/p>\n

First published in Boat People<\/em><\/strong> (HeadworX) 2002<\/p>\n

Reprinted in Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand<\/em> <\/strong>(Interactive Press) 2009<\/p>\n

Reproduced here with permission.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Currently, I’m refocusing on the poetry of Tim Jones, a fellow Tuesday Poet and friend in both poetry and speculative fiction prose. As I also share Tim’s enthusiasm for both science and science fiction it is perhaps not surprising that I enjoy this poem.<\/p>\n

I featured it first on October 22, 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"timjones\"<\/a>About The Poet:<\/h3>\n

Tim Jones is a New Zealand poet, author and editor who was awarded both the New Zealand Society of Authors Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature and a Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2010. His latest book, co-edited with PS Cottier, is The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry<\/em><\/strong> (2014).<\/p>\n

For more, see http:\/\/timjonesbooks.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

\"TuesPoem\"<\/a>To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The stars, Natasha Natasha, fundamentals are strong, key indicators steady. Leave your books, Natasha, let your computer draw patterns on its screen. Walk with me through the heavens. Along cold orbits the spendthrift stars squander their assets on light. The World Bank is unamused; the IMF is noting down their names. So take my hand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28259,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28256\/revisions\/28259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}