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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I pull out my patched I There’s a new cut in it, bleeding gently, persistently I try to suture it, but the stitches hurt more than the blade—that blade made a clean, sparkling pain, a sudden fizz, a breath-catch— I try to anaesthetise, but numbness is unthinkable, terrifying, now, after that blade so I give… Read more
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Work done for now, we go out Motley friends and associates We have a cheap meal in a tacky restaurant with the sports channel on a huge screen above the table Men, 22, 23, lithe and powerful, risk their lives on bikes We laugh about some bloke called Dave who lived with his rickety mother… Read more
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(for two voices) It’s just a thing. Just a thing. We did the research. We measured it. Don’t bother to write, to sing. It’s just a thing. But when we held each other naked to the waist the skin over our hearts pressed close— That’s just pheromones, chemicals, your oxytocin receptors firing. We did the… Read more
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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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