Vivien Jones lives on the north Solway shore with her husband, Richard. She is a semi-professional early musician along with her husband. Her short stories have been widely published and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland – her first themed collection of short stories, Perfect 10, has been published in September 2009 by Pewter Rose Press. A poetry chapbook, Something in the Blood, was published in February 08 (Selkirk Lapwing Press) and another, Hare (Erbacce Press) in March 08. She has twice performed as a Poetry Double with Jacob Polley and Jen Hadfield and devises collaborative readings with music in performance at Book and Arts Festivals in Scotland and the north of England. She is currently working on a first poetry collection.
Spring 2010
Table of Contents - Vol. VI, No. 1
Vivien Jones
My woods are sycamore, laburnum and box.
My strings are sheep gut, plain or barley twist.
On my belly rises my curving bridge
over which my six strings stretch.
My pegs pierce their tapered box like offset arrows.
The bow --
which is apart,
is horse-tail and beech.
My neck nestles hers, my scroll examines her ear.
I fit snugly (as he does) between her legs --
I lie back on her shoulder ( as he does):
In her embrace I am weightless (as he is).
Does she touch him, as she does me,
with infinite tenderness?
Does he sing out too?
© Vivien Jones
