Poems

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

  • The umbrella The keyring The bus-stop The priority seat The “Yes, please” The three dollars ninety The teabag The front page The crossword The plastic basket The chops, potatoes, carrots, peas The “Fine, thanks” The bus-stop The priority seat The keyring The umbrella The light inside the fridge The power point The teabag The armchair… Read more

  • the analogy

    “the godelnumbering is the beautiful thing” Read more

  • … And the largest voids and filaments / Are the sum of entities generated / By the joining of yin and yang. … Read more

  • Tao poem: a way that can be followed is not the true way / tao is not tao / a way you can lay out is not the true way / explicable tao: not tao Read more

  • This house I am temporarily inhabiting has so many walls. We fought for our freedom to build. Difference between a wall and a fence: you can see through a fence. Which is crueler? This is nonsense; this is a lie; this is a paradox; this is a theorem. Once I got free I wanted back… Read more

  • trace

    This dropped as a bird fluttered free from a claw. This: black waves, soft sines gathered and stitched along a wand. This is not an artefact. Between its closed hooked ranks its flaw, a slit, diffracts the light. I long to give the smooth folds of this to my fingers, take its intricate truth, but… Read more