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

  • Go

    (Dublin 2005) Beggar on the bridge huddled in a blanket, grey blanket, stone faces reflected in the river, black river, blood in my neon eyes, red as the taillights, neon as the red lights, neon as the dawn breaking on another never-enough river, on black swans White swan reflected. This is where I am, in… Read more

  • The sound

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    The sound of MY FAVOURITE BAND        is an apricot’s juice on my tongue,        my chin, my wrist, my t-shirt The sound of MY FAVOURITE BAND        is rain and the warm wet of summer Sydney rain        and the smell of rain on a hot road The sound of MY FAVOURITE BAND       … Read more

  • Dream 7

    I dream an Irish road and wake I dream seven singers and wake I dream night falling and wake with my heart in my fingers I dream hitch-hiking and catching a train back to the city and wake with a wish in my hands— arch way of trees a rain-green air seven singers faeries stones—… Read more

  • Dream 42

    If your voice is not the taste of a dream in my mouth is not the whisper of the child under my skin is not the hopeful face at my door is not the yin-yang windchime of heaven and hearth then nothing is. Acting in accord with the time, I respond as you respond: in… Read more

  • Down There

    I’m tired of my cunt. The way she cries for a man (or a wank) at the most inconvenient times like when I’m cooking or watching something interesting on TV or on Saturday afternoon when the kids are playing hide and seek all through the house, popping up here and there and I say to… Read more

  • Davy Byrne’s

    2005 On the last day of my visit I have lunch in Davy Byrne’s. I finally get there. I’m a writer visiting Dublin! That’s what I’m supposed to do, go and stand where Bloom didn’t stand and eat what he never ate. So I lean against the bar (“nice piece of wood in that”). It’s… Read more