Poems

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

  • In Tow

    Climbing walls with me in tow If you fall I won’t let go Walk your tightrope—I will too When you trip I’ll die with you. Read more

  • Lost

    Is it better to be lost than trapped? Like an island unexplored, not mapped? An uncharted island could move and who’d care? But one that has a place wouldn’t dare. Read more

  • I believed in a love. If it’s a love, then it can’t die, or it isn’t a love. If it’s a love, then it’s going to exist forever. So I believed it couldn’t die. I believed it would exist forever, Always be there to comfort me, convince me that the world’s Not lost yet. But… Read more

  • David Lee Roth’s Gaping lycra tights Don’t thrill me. That singer in a Codpiece Doesn’t spill me. Mick Jagger’s Padding Only chills me. But there’s a Brown leather jacket That could kill me! Read more

  • Well I’ve got you here in voice I can get you anytime I want! For a short time of joy Only to be followed by the dragging hunger. Well I’ve got you here in image Oh yes! I can see the image Reading expressions into it. The dragging hunger Yes! And tonight, tonight it is… Read more

  • Night Walk

    You walk from the flat with the comfortable chairs Out the door and down the stairs Over the bridge across the river’s mud Around a puddle of glass and blood Past the freeway with its eyes on fire Near a church with a nightlight spire Through the park with the lurking corners And a wailing… Read more