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

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

Poems

Creative commons poetry (except where otherwise indicated): poems written by Jackson

  • My father’s toolbox

    A slack-jawed shifting spanner / A yellow tape measure / that pulls out stiffly / and won’t retract // A small white pill/ A fishing knife, stain-blotched wood,/ line of triangular fangs/ A piece of heavy wire bent into a hook // The key to a long-lost lock … Read more

  • Líjiāng Reflections (Li River Reflections)

    Líjiāng Reflections (Li River Reflections)

    平静的漓江里 / 有两座山：[Píngjìng de Líjiāng lǐ / yǒu liǎng zuò shān:] / In the calm Li River / two mountains … Read more

  • 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