This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
My writing
My writing that is published on this site, including lots of creative commons poetry.
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Made from Google-translated SMS messages received during 2019 while living in Yinchuan, Ningxia. // Today is Arbor Day. / Thank you for your support for the greening of the motherland! / Let us work together to fulfill the obligation / to plant trees and build / a beautiful China. … Read more
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Outside my hotel, / around the corner from the neon mirage / of the central shopping street, / a woman squats in the roadway, / a metre from the gutter / in the cold rain, / pants down / by her bag-lady bag … Read more
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Especially if you’re new to writing and publishing, you might think you don’t need to edit your poetry. After all, the poems we love to read seem so effortless. Surely the words were directly inspired by the Universe and could never have been anything other than what they are? Read more
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Up late this morning. “They” are doing the / road outside, putting in traffic-calming / devices: trees in the middle of the road, / speed platforms, kerbs, marked lanes. Is this / how prize-winning poets write … Read more
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Why is higher maths / so full of the names of men? / Godel’s theorem, / Cauchy sequence, Hilbert space, / Gaussian, Hamiltonian, Lagrangian. // Highschool calculus wasn’t like that. / The derivative was not / the Newton function, / the integral not / the Leibnitzian. // Irrational numbers, imaginary numbers, / complex and transcendental… Read more
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… Her father is the gardener. He keeps it / well, wanders in it like Wittgenstein. The others / make fun of him. The child watches // their cartwheels. Asks. One, two, / three, they laugh. But the child is not co- / ordinated. She doesn’t have her count / together. The numbers come /… Read more
Jackson 