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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his perfect speech stripped to the waist his exquisite phrases jeans tight and damp his grammar curls cling to his chest in a lick of new sweat his diction hair hangs black strings into his eyes his pronunciation steam fizzing off him resonant vowels, sibilant consonants touch me, touch me, touch me First published in… Read more
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You are the person I am dressing up as. You are the picture on the website the character onscreen the person, as real as I am, who sends my messages. You are full of pieces of everyone. You are awake at 4am talking intensely into a mobile phone in a bar somewhere in America. Then… Read more
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And here’s a secret. All my poems are about love. Does that answer your question? Love, and the holy voices of love made of nothing and light made of nothing and noises made of everything and words made of where and who— Aren’t your poems about that? Your poems. You know, the lines that come… Read more
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When we need him we siphon him out of the software, out of the layers, out of the hyper-reality and into the inter-reality of our mouths (hands, eyes) and release him. When we release him we let him out of his box, out of his house, out of his walled garden and into the buffeting… Read more
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