Poetry | Thursday, August 2,2012

downtownpoem #4

we need a sonnet song somethingspecial to memorialize sachi oursplendid flower shop 7th & adamsrun so graciously by yosh truly agolden place its name her belovedmother but filled with such demands

Poetry | Thursday, July 26,2012

global warming poem #4

By Jacqueline Jackson

global warming poem #4 after a non- winter I wrote if it’s 88 in Springfield on the ides of march what’s it going to be in mid-july now we know we’ve sown the wind and ar

Poetry | Thursday, July 19,2012

anecdotepoem #6

By Jacqueline Jackson

an out-of-town friendnew to my three year oldbeckoned her to him “jillyI’ll tell you a secret” she

Poetry | Thursday, July 12,2012

downtownpoem #5

By Jacqueline Jackson

while on a roll of downtown dramaconsider the then newish bank at 5th & washington in the good ol’ days of ssuI was co-teaching with marian levinwriting and movement our class of tenwomen me

Poetry | Thursday, July 5,2012

springfield bad-decision poem # 4

By Jacqueline Jackson

O sing our dolorous lamentationO hear ye gods of all creationa city spot, a corner greenis soon no longer to be seenchain saws will rent the dawning calmthe toads and rabbits will be gonethe frisky sq

Poetry | Thursday, June 28,2012

downtown poem # 4

By Jacqueline Jackson

I discovered in my teens (yes a slow learner)if you did a devious deed officially enoughboldly enough no one would question youractions this proved true at the old state capitolart fair many years ago

Poetry | Thursday, June 21,2012

foundpoem #16

By Jacqueline Jackson

Elspeth, 3rd grade, left this inher mother’s typewriter, Idon’t think purposely to beread. (She often monkeyedabout on my machine.) Thegrammar is deliberate for shespoke correctly. I see t

Poetry | Thursday, June 14,2012

downtown poem # 3

By Jacqueline Jackson

you know that tall building 6th and monroe café brio on the ground floor maybe you’ve noted they’re stripping the fake façade with a crane well that facing went on in the 70s to bea

Poetry | Thursday, June 7,2012

ashespoem #3

By Jacqueline Jackson

last week walker church over 100 years oldburned down a monstrous blaze all over theinternet five firefighters hurt one bad likelycause lightning the church community ralliedwent ahead the next day fe

Poetry | Thursday, May 31,2012

diarypoem # 1: a blink

By Jacqueline Jackson

diarypoem # 1: a blink my mother burned years of diariesbefore her first child was born shetold me later that if anything hadhappened to her she didn’t wantaunt ida or aunt lillian prying intoh