Jacqueline Jackson

aroundtownpoem #4 speaking of names we have some pretty good ones around here take dusty rhodes at illinois times a common nickname with folks named rhodes maybe with lanes and streets too but our dusty earns hers she kicks up dust then the editor roland klose you like to roll those smooth round o’s around […]

grandchildpoem #2 it’s an odd sensation to be at the helm says my brother-in-law I’m now the oldest of my line I tell him about rachel bustling into daycare this is my grandma she is very old she’s going to die she’s not going to be here very long I think I’ll be around a […]

kinquotepoem # 4 after the killings elspeth six in ’70 said demi was born at oxford megan was born at harvard jilly was born at yale and I was born at kent now we’ve all been born at famous universities © Jacqueline Jackson 2005

aroundthecosmos poem #2 pluto is demoted demoted demoted pluto is demoted let’s dance around the ring we’ll tighten up our kuiper belt kuiper belt kuiper belt we’ll tighten up our kuiper belt and dance around the ring our heads are in the oort cloud oort cloud oort cloud our heads are in the oort cloud […]

kinquote poem # 3 a friend says your poems aren’t profound my dad tells of the city chap who waited by the fence thinking he’d surely gain some weathered wisdom from the grizzled tiller of the soil the farmer paused to turn his team the stranger asked what do you think about when you plow […]

poolpoem #2 I should take my Y membership off my income tax it’s in the pool I percolate the unpaid poems for this publication don’t all those alliterative lines sound like beowulf © Jacqueline Jackson 2005

kitchenpoem #1 I notice I’m having an orange breakfast orange orange orange chunk of butternut squash orange egg yes orange because it’s from a cage-free drug-free antibiotics-free organically-nourished yard hen named heather fedbetter who lives in port washington wisconsin and bids me have an eggsellent day thank you heather and the same to you © […]

lovepoem # 2 contemplating getting up I designated today as toenail cutting day such a boring chore that even though it takes just a few minutes you need to celebrate it but now I can’t find the clippers so the event will have to be postponed glad I didn’t advertise it when my mom was […]

travelpoem # 2 her grandfather built the cottage one hundred years ago single room thick walled white the kind you see in coffee table books I sit in the inglenook is there an irish name for that recessed spot with seats on two sides fire in the middle you can look right up the chimney […]

naturepoem #2 (adapted from sandcounty almanac by aldo leopold) draba sprinkles sandy soil with small white blooms that catch no eye lost in the gusty winds of march its scent attracts no passerby in sun too weak for bigger blooms in sand too poor for flag or rose a postscript to the hope of spring the […]

aroundtown poem #2 john knoepfle has a poem that lists the dogs of auburn I learned in college that poems often have lists especially epics that’s one way you can tell an epic so here are the cows in the round barn, 1914: marie, beauty, princess, lassie, easter, may, fantine, fern, gladys, elsie, gretchen, hester […]

kinquotepoem #2 when my cousin was twelve he took a girl to the movies this was back in the thirties they ate bags and bags of popcorn and several holloway suckers each in case you’re too young to remember a holloway sucker is a slab of molasses as big as a brick and about as […]