Poetry | Thursday, March 8,2012

farmerpoem #11

farmerpoem #11maybe I’ve told you thisbefore but my dad saysa country kid can runthrough a pasture andnever step on anythingwhile a city kid can pickhis way through a pastureand step on everythi

Poetry | Thursday, March 1,2012

poem about poems #1

By Jacqueline Jackson

my poet friend trims the crust fromhis twenty-first polyptotonic pie readyto slide into the literary oven gathersthe tailings rolls them out againenough for another he decidesrolls the scraps again an

Poetry | Thursday, February 23,2012

n fifthstreet poem #14

By Jacqueline Jackson

n fifthstreet poem #14ugly things can happen onn fifth street my second daughterin her teens was on the sidewalkin front of our house she noticeda pup start across the roadwaythen a truck coming along

Poetry | Thursday, February 16,2012

advicepoem

By Jacqueline Jackson

in 1924 my grandfather writeshis freshman son aboutthat son’s new possession:“Regarding your car, cut it out.You are better off without it.What you need is to developquiet strength and poi

Poetry | Thursday, February 9,2012

iceman poem #3

By Jacqueline Jackson

there must be many an iceman onelies in his tent near thesouth pole a hundred years nowthey left him there with two othersbrought back the sleeping bag ofone who said he was going outand disappeared i

Poetry | Thursday, February 2,2012

phonepoem #2

By Jacqueline Jackson

phonepoem #2when I call a business a library oralmost any number not a frienda robot voice will say listen carefully for our menu has changed then come seven choices none the entrée I need if I

Poetry | Thursday, January 26,2012

readingpoem #7

By Jacqueline Jackson

readingpoem #7 A recent letter from my sister, Pat, relates this tale about our oldest sister Joan as a kid. joan read all the time &ndash

Poetry | Thursday, January 19,2012

griefpoem #8

By Jacqueline Jackson

when anyone says “how are you?” – a common greeting – I reply cheerfully “holding up” – that seems an acceptable answer and it’s true.I needn’t el

Poetry | Thursday, January 12,2012

featherspoem # 6

By Jacqueline Jackson

featherspoem # 6 it deceives, this winter warmth twice now I’ve heard a familiar ck-ck-ck high on my back porch and known it was my old tenant the cardinal – when I looked there was the li

Poetry | Thursday, January 5,2012

newyearspoem 2012

By Jacqueline Jackson

let’s praise old ladies’ beautiful bodies I see them daily in the Y shower room myself included some of us gaunt sinewy some with rolls of fat some in between but most with rounded bellies