This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
Poems
Creative commons poetry (except where otherwise indicated): poems written by Jackson
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If I handwashed my clothes every day / I could meditate on the process. / Attain enlightenment while massaging / the fabric or something. I could have two // robes and wash one while wearing the other / or something. Perhaps there are different / enlightenments. Surely the laundry sink / one can’t be the… Read more
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If I leave I will not order boxes / There will be no packaging tape / no moving men / no truck / I will take none of it … Read more
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… spend the money on a holiday / or stay at home and make nothing / but art for a year // or donate the cash to the Climate Council … Read more
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I take to the local / People Who Care / the slow cooker / the food processor / two boxes of unsewn fabric / seven boxes of magazines / the handmade drum / and the second / armchair … Read more
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… someone had arranged brown boulders / to make a huge word: / LOVE. And above the E // a shoal of mullet / turned / in a silver spiral. … Read more
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For Coral I dreamed my friend was suicidal So useless she said so useless that I may as well just die Shrunken and small she was A little old nothing When I told her the dream she said yes shrunken and small that’s how I feel I hope she soon feels better Expands back into… Read more
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