This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

  • 2021 publications

    List of 2021 publications with links. Review. Poems in podcast, anthology, and journals. Mascara Literary Review, Schlow Library Podcast, A Lighthouse Lost, London Grip, Ink Sweat & Tears, foam:e Read more

  • The huge word

    … someone had arranged brown boulders / to make a huge word: / LOVE. And above the E // a shoal of mullet / turned / in a silver spiral. … Read more

  • Shrunken and small

    For Coral I dreamed my friend was suicidal So useless she said so useless that I may as well just die Shrunken and small she was A little old nothing When I told her the dream she said yes shrunken and small that’s how I feel I hope she soon feels better Expands back into Read more

  • The mammogram machine

    In the women’s clinic the mammogram machine is shaped like an embryo in profile Large awkward squarish head Straight spine Tucked-under pelvis A leg bud (tray) An arm bud (compressor plate) Mouthparts where the beam comes out Embossed in the plastic a plus-sign where a proto-eye might be First published in Creatrix 49, June 2020 Read more

  • The centre

    Look in, in to the Planck time, / the dream moment of birth, / where our physics fails / as quantum and gravity clash / and the cosmos is crushed to a jot / immanent, imminent / a tiny infinite Not Read more

  • The nothing

    … At the mention of solitude / the shadow mouth / turns up its corners / and the shadow eyes /glint … whispering loneliness / breathing solitude … Read more