This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

My writing

My writing that is published on this site, including lots of creative commons poetry.

  • Managed Isolation, Day 2

    At dinnertime they make / their first mistake: / a chicken salad. // What would Buddha do? / The Welcome Pack says “kia ora” / and “Please be kind to the staff” … Read more

  • Trigger

    … O my English language! You are losing your / inflections. Your peaks and passes, your fells / and dales, your long suffixed and prefixed / conjugations, your ings and ations … Read more

  • That

    … That was it! I thought. What I’ve been looking for. / In the open dark field of the child’s clean eyes … Read more

  • Download

    So I download Zoom / and Instagram / and Words with Friends / and CovidSafe … Read more

  • The Millennium Simulation

    The Millennium Simulation

    For those who are afraid, this / is what we are. // Made of spots and threads of light, / it looks like a giant brain, tissue / microscoped. Each neuron, gathered / axons, spot of light, plays / a cluster / of galaxies … Read more

  • Many hands

    … The heat exchanger was crammed / with tiny miserable elves / They couldn’t get at the food / they worked all day to cool … Read more