Jackson

the mother. in the night. the bear mother. a sign. the daughter. fix the air. her foot in mist. a note of rock. when she is a daughter. when her cloud brother. cloud father. when she is a bear. her tooth. her pelt. when we make ridiculous laughter. the bee buzz. the honey. to fix Read more

And you? You’re a cafe with retro decor On the wall you have a picture of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly wearing that dress showing you something in black and white You know that Audrey is dead and Holly lived only in Capote’s mind Neither of them will ever come in Each woman who comes Read more

How long, how long, how long, how long, to sing this song? — U2, channelling the Psalmist The music's cruisy     trancy     wordless The father walks away from the mother On the father's hip the baby cries Mamma Mamma The father walks away so the mother can do the workshop On the father's hip the baby cries Mamma Read more

I dreamed I was starting in a running race There were four 400-metre laps Everyone else limbered up When the gun went they took off sending up divots from their spiked shoes I stretched myself a bit and looked around The finish line was only 50 metres from the starting blocks Just there Practically in Read more

my mother smells like cat: tongue licking kitten; like homespun: wool-grease, warmth; like eggshell, like duckpond; like ocean: iodine, fins; like oils wet on canvas; like tripe, like boiled cabbage; like baked apples and ginger biscuits; like slept-in ‘Tweed by Lentheric’; like cold morning ash; like yellowing paper; like glass First published in Creatrix Read more