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

  • Failing

    “… A plastic bag! / Another! / A crisp packet! / Cling wrap! // When had I swallowed all that? …” (Warning: toilet content!) Read more

  • On the ground

    … the broken glass on the / pavement? footpath?—anyway / it’s where I want to put / my feet—on the ground of Ōtepoti, // for instance, Pitt Street, which falls … Read more

  • Salt of the earth

    Salt of the earth

    I drop in, she hugs me, offers / five kinds of tea, finds biscuits. / Up close, her neck is a country mile / of sundrenched hills and valleys Read more

  • Breach

    … my old timezone so far away … Read more

  • red metal going

    driving by the blue sky sea, / sun winking and twitching // on the skin of the abyss, / and me red metal going … Read more

  • Lions in Hong Kong

    The lions dip and weave to the drum / in gold-frilled, red-fringed / purple nylon tracksuits … Read more