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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Unlike you, kid, she says, he never did anything — just kicked balls and chased rabbits At 12 I watched him, 15, tossing hay off the flatbed — tanned deltoids, torn singlet, low-slung jeans, calling to the cows I never got to touch his dull white scars or hear his baby cry His was the… Read more
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“I want to hear the ten pm train / without wondering / in what year it will cease to run” Read more
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… the first / suspension of the world, the final life of the / people of the river, the life of the gang, the / final and the like, the final achievement of the / dead invasion, the people of the life of the / guardian, the final achievement of the / environment, the final… Read more
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In the queue in the chemist this afternoon I stood behind a man with a gun An armed guard from the ATM money truck The gun was in a holster on his right hip I wondered whether it was loaded I thought about the barrel the trigger the bullet at ease in its little room… Read more
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I dreamed X in a swimming pool a man on the side with a stopwatch a race I in the water too with others all competing I dreamed X won because part of the scoring was on how elegantly you moved your body I just couldn't match her flow I would move nicely for a… Read more
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At Cottesloe Beach, 2015 Dadda! Dadda! a toddler screams Dadda! Dadda! Dadda! Dadda! Dadda! Dadda! Dadda is chiselled, hard-bodied, striding up the beach in rash top, mid-thigh shorts, expensive, tight Under his right arm like a rugby ball he carts a little girl held horizontal, facing the ground wriggling and kicking against his grip screaming… Read more
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