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

  • Pause Breathe Listen Act

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    13 February 2020 As Parliament sits in its hilltop house, we spread our banners out on the steps: CLIMATE EMERGENCY. PAUSE BREATHE LISTEN ACT. We meditate there for two hours. Traffic noise like thick smoke rises from the city below. I hear you say: some day. Some day, when all these cars are electric, the… Read more

  • Split and shaped

    It’s as if they said, three hundred years ago, this is a house, a flat-sided box with a door and small plain windows, two storeys of fired or quarried country, my country, grey upon brown upon grey, gathered in patches and swathes amid the irrepressible green— the fields, trees, hedges, lawns— gathered in blocks and… Read more

  • Home is where it gets dark

    My daughter and I swapped rooms. Her bed is now in the big room and my mat in the small one. She wanted the big room to spread out all her things. I’m sleeping better in the little one because the walls are closer. I made savoury rice in the large frypan. I put the… Read more

  • the

    Poem made from word hoard. owl sacrament / ancient sacrament / mother sacrament … Read more

  • dance

    A concert dream! / I can stand close to my idols / immobilised by the crush / or watch from far away / and dance / / I chose to dance / in the end / I chose to dance Read more

  • Thirteen ways of looking at an unseen bird

    In response to “Learning the Name” by Ursula K. Le Guin Read its name in English, such as crow or Swainson’s thrush. Read its name in Latin. Look at a picture of a bird of its species and sex. Write an equation to model its flocking behaviour. Add its decaying nest to your collection. Find… Read more