Poetry | Thursday, August 19,2010

featherspoem #8

you can’t sleepon the porchat the lake ifyou don’t likeowlsthey chorusso closeyou can feelthe sizeand the breathof their lungs

Poetry | Thursday, July 8,2010

tappitbrotherspoem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

some NPR listeners loath click ‘n’ clackbut I love ’em they’re such smart guysMIT PhDs and from a fair city I oncelived in and the cars they know so muchabout get into such rid

Poetry | Thursday, June 17,2010

wordspoem # 3

By Jacqueline Jackson

at a scrabble party the other nightwe found that asshole isn’t in theofficial dictionary my quarrel withthat scrabble authority has beenit omits the two-letter solfegesyllables except those popu

Poetry | Thursday, June 10,2010

poem: all roads lead to ...

By Jacqueline Jackson

ever since that great toad of awalmart went up off south sixthsmothering the green field waitI like toads they’re good for thegarden so spell it with a “u”no that word also means goo

Poetry | Thursday, June 3,2010

farewelltopaul poem

By Jacqueline Jackson

nephews nieces cousins of all ageswe searched the serene chicagocemetery sunday alone except forthe myriads of departed but wherewas our departed the heirs who carriedhis coffin through the february d

Poetry | Thursday, May 27,2010

farmerpoem #9

from a letter from Ron Dougan to daughter Jackie April 7, ’63

By Jacqueline Jackson

just had word a close friend in theseed business near janesville hasdecided to throw his whole operationin with funks — a big national seedcorn company — and discontinuewisconsin strains e

Poetry | Thursday, May 13,2010

laundrysong from the

musical, endless pavement

By Jacqueline Jackson

(enter washarolla anddryarolla chanting:wash-a-chug, wash-a-chugfluff’n’dry, fluff’n’dry)washarolla (sings):bring your dirty dudsto the washarollato the soap and sudsof the was

Poetry | Thursday, April 15,2010

the humans’ song

from the musical, The Endless Pavement

By Jacqueline Jackson

no need to hurryno need to worrylife is regu-life is regu-latedfrom the birthmobileto the hearsemobileby the GREATCOMPUTER-MOBILEno need to hurryno need to worrylife is regu-life is regu-latedfrom the

Poetry | Thursday, April 1,2010

farmer retirement poem #1

(from a letter to Jackie from her father Spring 1969)

By Jacqueline Jackson

now that we don’t have milkingwe can travel says your mother andI agree—there are lots of placesin rock county I haven’t seen wehaven’t visited chamberlainspring in newark town

Poetry | Thursday, March 25,2010

Hymn from the musical “The Endless Pavement”

By Jacqueline Jackson

O hail to thee O great tvwho fills our waking hoursearly and late and in between wespend our lives before the screenplenty to do stare at the viewit’s inviting it’s excitingit’s deli