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.

  • red metal going

    driving by the blue sky sea, / sun winking and twitching // on the skin of the abyss, / and me red metal going … Read more

  • Lions in Hong Kong

    The lions dip and weave to the drum / in gold-frilled, red-fringed / purple nylon tracksuits … Read more

  • The hegemony of blue

    There’s one other person waiting for the 106 under the long line of shelters between the car yards and the Causeway. A hunched-up bus-stop woman. I sit down beside her, tucking my weathered coat around my knees. ‘How’s your Sunday been?’ ‘They should put on more buses! It’s taken me an hour to get here Read more

  • A green heart

    Let me give you / this green heart / with seven main veins that fan out / from a starburst, supporting / an intricate web … Read more

  • view

    the great tree / beheaded / to construct / a view … Read more

  • unfaithful

    A short comic poem. ‘Starbucks is my American boyfriend / He squires me everywhere’ Read more