Bio

Bryony Jagger was born and brought up in England. She studied philosophy and music at Cambridge University. She is a poet and composer and lives in Auckland. She has had 31 Poetry collections published and had odd poems published in a variety of magazines in Australia, New Zealand, and USA. Two of her maths poems are published in Right Angle, a book published by University of the South Pacific Press. She won Danse Macabre's Prix d'ecriture de Noel in 2010. She is currently writing an opera.

Grey
cloud
layers
thunder their
disapproval of
the upstart contrails which, with their
snowy whiteness, show up the grubby clouds' dirtiness.
"What would you artificial toys know about the pressures of real natural life?"

But
the
cheeky
contrails just
slip and slide through the
vastly differing shades of grey
of the multiple threatening layers of the clouds,
like brash brass bashing their barbarism thru the thick layered textures of orchestras.