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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When Peter Cowan Writers Centre asked me to be the judge for their recent poetry competition, I was pleased, but a bit hesitant. I don’t often enter poetry competitions because choosing one poem as the “best” from a whole field of entries seems kind of arbitrary. But I’m always up for a new experience, and… Read more
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When the lollies are passed around they’re never the ones I like. They’re always sucrose-hit fake-colour convenience store cheapies. I like deep chocolate dense fudge soft glucose slow savour. Not available on just any corner. You unwrap one let me scent it I reach out but you snatch it back and hide it. When I… Read more
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So I walked away, found a corner booth in an empty bar, and fantasized You will be old, succumbing at last to the things you’ve done to that body and I, old too, but now the stronger one, will push your wheelchair around the neighbourhood we found or made All these women who halo you,… Read more
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Friday a retired man paints his new picket fence four hot shades dry on my nails pink and yellow flowers sprawl on the verge Read more
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A personage great in the girth whose wealth was an outcome of birth exclaimed, “It’s a sign! All this money, all mine!” She didn’t know what she was worth. There was a poor poet from Perth whose polemics were objects of mirth. People wailed, “If your verse should become any worse it might be… Read more
Jackson 