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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There’s a live radio version from 2012 in this interview. Fly free, I said. I wanted to fly. On my back, wings have grown: their bones from structures of thought, their sinews from lines of ideas, their muscles from patterns of rhythm, their layered feathers from notes and rests Here on the ground with a… Read more
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The man I want is smart enough to think in metaphor and reason by analogy. He reads. The man I want has a dangerous lean to the left. He’s quietly spiritual, with hope but not delusion. The man I want likes conversation better than TV. He likes to sit around late at night, talking. He… Read more
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About the people in Amber Fresh’s poem “wind farm” wind in the turbines electric generation his fingers brush mine Read more
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in stark black lines on white the cane toad with lumps and warts drawn as rounds and discs inked eyes a curve as a hint of tongue comes out of the night with its croak: am I not? am I not, too, made for some place? First published in Westerly Published in the Fremantle Press… Read more
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Scared It is dark. I am lost. It is horrible. I mean it is really really scary. When it is light I am found. ——Callan (aged about 10) He hugs his teddy-bear and says Sing a happy song. He wants a happy song, lilting along, to distract him from the growl of his voice-destroying fear.… Read more
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I get a beer and lean on the bar I can smell the pheromones He’s been sweating into that t-shirt all afternoon I want to touch but he doesn’t even smile I think he’d be intense in bed A really good hard fuck But he’s so serious He doesn’t flirt And I don’t know where… Read more
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