Poetry | Thursday, November 19,2009

musicpoem #11

my father sat on my sister’s first fiddleleft on the couch she was seven he wasso mad he grabbed it by the neck smashedit to the floor where it finished dyingwith a doleful twang the good thing

Poetry | Thursday, October 8,2009

kidquotepoem #11

By Jacqueline Jackson

don’t get any more of that limeade brand it reminds me of gas station bathrooms

Poetry | Thursday, October 1,2009

couldbeworse poem # 1

By Jacqueline Jackson

david visiting his folks with histwo small children in tow tookthem to the barn horses he’d knownall his life he patted badger’s nosebadger bit him bit off the end ofhis ring finger right

Poetry | Thursday, September 24,2009

valueofbooks poem #2

By Jacqueline Jackson

a librarian told me this got itfrom her friend at west branchso it’s true I can supply namesan elderly woman reported alost book wanted to pay for itthe librarian said why don’t youjust wa

Poetry | Thursday, September 17,2009

countyfairpoem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

behind as I sit on the foot-weary’s bench at wisconsin’s walworth county fair is SPIN-OUT before me the WHEEL OF FIRE beyond is ORBITER then ZIPPER where my grandkid’s terrified scre

Poetry | Thursday, September 10,2009

insectappreciation poem #5

By Jacqueline Jackson

insectappreciation poem #5 here at the cottage we don’t use thebathtub the primitive septic systemcouldn’t take it anyway there’s thelake but the faucet drips and little

Poetry | Thursday, August 27,2009

featherspoem # 9

By Jacqueline Jackson

hummingbirds we thought but why nesting so late in the season and on a hemlock bough over the dock where on rare sunny days we lie on our backs watch their comings and goings they fly like hummingbird

Poetry | Thursday, August 20,2009

artsycraftsy poem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

there’s this college kid, see, whodue to inspiration or a few beersstole several of those barrelsstriped orange-and-white thatsurround road construction he spenta few hours making a fifteen-foot

Poetry | Thursday, August 13,2009

for carol manley

By John Knoepfle

at four o’clock the birds in the gardenattend to their psalmsit is that sort of daybeginning with a consecrated hourovercast perhapsa weekend saturdaywe will go to the farmers’ marketthis

Poetry | Wednesday, August 5,2009

Peoples Poetry

Jacqueline Jackson presents

By Jacqueline Jackson

wednesday july 29 poemthings can change so fastat nine this morning I pickedsweet corn in a sunny fieldat eleven in the ICU I laidmy hand and lips on thecooling forehead of mydearest friend may you fi