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

  • tongue

    the  girled     garden we water lust’s gownly lick frantic meat death apparatus                 please tongue waxed bare with whispers          here I want you raw not elaborately           ^                drunk Written by Coral Carter and Jackson using the original Magnetic Poetry Kit. First published in Creatrix. Read more

  • necessary

    Its eyes are orange stones, staring nowhere and everywhere, hiding a mystery, a mind. Every feather that lines its back, creates its wings, defines its tail is black: an ancient and sacred darkness. Gripping the rim of the birdbath it stretches its Nick Cave neck and caws the old long notes that mark the morning.… Read more

  • breathing

    (London to Dublin 2005) Up like a shot off a shovel in Aer Lingus’s shamrock embrace seatfabric woven with the writings of Joyce and Yeats sky melds with sea in a one of blue plane if you fall fall now Captain’s longsentence voice how arr ye ladies and gentlemen welcome flight attendant you OK there… Read more

  • precious

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    if I give up, things will come right, so everyone saysif I tell you I have given up on youif your response to that is to rush joyfully into the distanceif I turn my head to hide my tearsif I walk away if I am quietif I do not speakif I walk for long enough… Read more

  • just as if nothing

    The moon is not yet a cellblock or somewhere to fly to / on a good night it flings its sliver or slice or circular song through the flungout tornup clothes of the clouds / on a good night the moon is not a dusty chemical yellow it is silver through the surviving trees through… Read more

  • Because of the dreams

    On reading a biography of Dylan Thomas If Dylan Thomas were alive today Huddled around the tiny fire of his longing Always wanting to be where he is not Loving with violent intensity Altering each poem a hundred times Carefully editing his letters Making promises he’ll never keep because of the dreams Regarding through his… Read more