Jackson

If I want to speak here, it seems I must wear this colourful suit they have given me. They say it looks good on me, makes me appear more interesting. But it’s too small: my shoulders are too broad, my arms reach well beyond the cuffs, my hips are too wide, I can hardly bend… Read more

The ambulance comes. My son— soft hair, round face, big eyes— gets a choice of bears: blue or yellow, both hand-knitted, character-faced, hug-sized. After some deliberation, he chooses blue, names him Bluey, cuddles him during the prodding and questioning and afterwards brings him home. It’s all the people in their ones and twos who are… Read more

24 March 2013 Perth, Western Australia To walk to the bakery I put on my fedora. I hate that it covers my ash-blonde hair but it shades my sensitive English skin. I go past the graffiti and through the park to the bridge. On my left below a railing the river glints. On my right… Read more

a tree trees music dancing a coastline a product scent or breath a shell a voice voices furniture hands or nails or fingers hands or nails or fingers a tarmac road a bird a bird fabric or coat or clothing fabric or coat or clothing fabric or coat or clothing fabric or coat a building… Read more

Carry on as if nothing has changed. Let yourself be carried away. Carry yourself like a dancer. If I carry equal weights in my left and right hands, I can walk much further. People think I carry my computer everywhere. I carried my babies close to my heart. If I lived in America I’d be… Read more

The underlying thing of that whole thing That’s not for her to letter in It’s out of my price range, lady Tower, like I heard Maybe you were blase But he flew as a criminal It’s interesting, you know The outstanding ant Two parents who are married So he dies on the moors Regular problems… Read more