Poetry | Thursday, June 2,2011

canarypoem #1

my friend auditions canaries a strange jobyou think well it’s a matter of sex and a bitmore pleasant than gendering chicks whichanother friend used to do it seems that onlymale canaries sing and

Poetry | Thursday, May 26,2011

northfifthstreet poem #16

By Jacqueline Jackson

people drive their kids to schoolthese days even when they livenearby guess they feel they have tostreets are too risky too dangerouscars line up before my house it’s nextto the schoolyard the p

Poetry | Thursday, May 19,2011

dairyman poem #7

from a letter to Jackie from her father, 1959

By Jacqueline Jackson

you’ve heard about thecow tags I forget when wequit stapling a metal clipto their ears that workedfine hardly cost a centbut the new colored strapscost a lot and often brokewe tried chains aroun

Poetry | Thursday, May 12,2011

flowerstore owner’s lament poem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

flowerstore owner’s lament poem #1mothers who live in mobile homesdeserve flowersmothers who live in mcmansionsdeserve flowersmothers who live in shelters, underbridges, in trees, deserve flower

Poetry | Thursday, May 5,2011

royalwedding poem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

royalwedding poem #1ah, c’mon. in the Y lobby this april 29 morna guy maybe forty jeans t shirtwho’d got up at five couldn’t findanything on the tube except “thatgarbage”

Poetry | Thursday, April 21,2011

dandelion poem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

my young daughters pickeddandelion heads on a sunny slopedappled with yellow we stirredthe blooms into a crock of wateradded sugar floated on topa slice of toast smeared withyeast and let it all bubbl

Poetry | Thursday, April 14,2011

wisconsin poem # 4

By Jacqueline Jackson

will the citizens who voted forthat governor and his cohortsrejoice when their kids’ teachersare fired perhaps themselves ifthey are teachers? the mostexperienced going first, natchwhen class si

Poetry | Thursday, April 7,2011

Poetry

By Jacqueline Jackson

aging poem #1when tradespeoplewaiters ushers and such startcalling you“young lady”then you knowyou’re reallygetting old 2011 Jacqueline Jackson

Poetry | Thursday, March 31,2011

pollutionpoem #4 March 31

By Jacqueline Jackson

hercules didn’t start it of course only publicized it — running a riverthrough the augean stables’ filthso that all the dirt and droppingswere swept downstream chicagowas canny to se

Poetry | Thursday, March 24,2011

wisconsin politico poem #2

By Jacqueline Jackson

“What’s disgusting?” “Union busting!”“What’s disgusting?” “Union busting!”your IT reporter is abroad today folkson the front line, the curb