Poetry | Thursday, October 20,2011

chickenfeed poem #1

chickenfeed poem #1friends a chicken is an omnivore needsprotein that’s why so many kids’ books of earlier centuries are heavy on boys hunting and trapping – pitch that deadbunny in

Poetry | Thursday, October 13,2011

The New One

By Jacqueline Jackson

This week’s poem is byguest poet Lola Lucaswho has written about myThe Round Barn, Volume I,soon to be published.Thank you, Lola! JJThe New Onefor Jackie JacksonSeptember 2011Jackie brings her n

Poetry | Thursday, October 6,2011

canalpoem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

canalpoem #1 if you need a stressfree interlude trya french canal trip our little craft with just our family is self sufficient we glide along the quiet waters four miles an hour green ban

Poetry | Thursday, September 29,2011

foodpoem #5

By Jacqueline Jackson

foodpoem #5 the peanut butter jar is emptyhow can anyone living alonesurvive without peanut butterpeanut butter and milk the writersof the pentateuch (plural becausemoses must have had help with thesp

Poetry | Thursday, September 22,2011

Monkeypoem #2

By Jacqueline Jackson

we took the grandkids to themovies sunday saw rise of theplanet of the apes it was as goodas the reviews predicted whatrefreshing car wrecks what astage the golden gate madefor those magnificent beast

Poetry | Thursday, September 15,2011

9/11 poem

By Jacqueline Jackson

sunday morning driving south onfifth I was stopped on capitol bya cavalcade of 1000? 2000? 3000?motorcyclists streaming past two threefour abreast some with flags big andsmall most multi-passengered,

Poetry | Thursday, September 8,2011

lakepoem # 16

By Jacqueline Jackson

lakepoem # 16 the lake is so stillit’s sacrilege to mar itwith my dawn swim’sripples 2011 Jacqueline Jackson

Poetry | Thursday, September 1,2011

lakepoem #17

By Jacqueline Jackson

lakepoem #17 as a kid I spied this sight several times in shallow reedy water of a small wisconsin lake a seething black platter made up of wriggling tiny bodies each smaller than a finger joint each

Poetry | Thursday, August 18,2011

lincolnpoem # 8

By Jacqueline Jackson

american friends living in germany these past thirty years visited last week we did the lincoln circuit john was contemplating the statued group in themuseum’s reception rotunda a welcomer said

Poetry | Thursday, August 11,2011

mozartpoem #6

By Jacqueline Jackson

these weekly offerings seem often to include music environment excrementremember the guy and the reservoiralso things that strike me as funny or bizarre here’s an item no not from thetabloids bu