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

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

  • up

    I looked up, and there was the sea First published in PPC Covid Drum 4, Perth Poetry Club, April 2020 Read more

  • Hovercars

    If we had hovercars, we wouldn’t need asphalt. We could have grass! Flowers, shrubs, reedy lakes! The whole city would be cooler. It would rain more. We could have fountains for roundabouts, trees for traffic lights, if First published in PPC Covid Drum 4, Perth Poetry Club, April 2020 Read more

  • For perspective

    On a pale green wall in electric sunlight three china ducks fly up and away For perspective the leader has been made small, the last in line made large They work their brown wings, orange feet tucked, blue faces stretched out on white-ringed necks Though they fly all day and half the night they stay Read more

  • 2020 publications

    List of 2020 publications with links. Poems in journals, anthologies, and a video. Poetry Archive, Creatrix Anthology 3, Science Write Now, Cordite, Westerly, Writ Poetry Review Read more

  • The voice of Jackson

    is the scream of a baby who wants nothing / more than to be picked up and played with is not / hungry is not wet is not too hot or cold has nothing / physically wrong with it just wants to be picked / up out of the cot with the pastel blankets … Read more

  • At war

    I sit down in my country that is now constantly at war Afghanistan Iraq ISIS I sit down in my country that is now constantly at war The Roman Empire Orwell’s Oceania I sit down with a rosehip and hibiscus tea clear and red in a mug printed with a green hippo I sit down Read more