Jackson

It’s always this. What to have for dinner. The procedure for having a shower in each new bathroom. Where to prepare my food in each new kitchen. The idea of someone’s cat in my bed with claws and hair and dirt. Yet we’re made of dirt and most people live in dirt. The grimy kettle,… Read more

thirsty / souvenir shop open / teahouse closed … Read more

Made from Google-translated SMS messages received during 2019 while living in Yinchuan, Ningxia. // Today is Arbor Day. / Thank you for your support for the greening of the motherland! / Let us work together to fulfill the obligation / to plant trees and build / a beautiful China. … Read more

Outside my hotel, / around the corner from the neon mirage / of the central shopping street, / a woman squats in the roadway, / a metre from the gutter / in the cold rain, / pants down / by her bag-lady bag … Read more

Up late this morning. “They” are doing the / road outside, putting in traffic-calming / devices: trees in the middle of the road, / speed platforms, kerbs, marked lanes. Is this / how prize-winning poets write … Read more

Why is higher maths / so full of the names of men? / Godel’s theorem, / Cauchy sequence, Hilbert space, / Gaussian, Hamiltonian, Lagrangian. // Highschool calculus wasn’t like that. / The derivative was not / the Newton function, / the integral not / the Leibnitzian. // Irrational numbers, imaginary numbers, / complex and transcendental… Read more