Jacqueline Jackson

friendquotepoem # 2 christy says when my family gets together we talk about politics, banned books, movies, but when my husband’s family gets together they talk about cleaning out the septic tank and the main course when it was still alive © Jacqueline Jackson 2005

grandchildpoem # 3 little brother nether naked capers with a spangly scarf I cinderella I cinderella big sister says I don’t think cinderella had a pe-nuss and a pacifier © Jacqueline Jackson 2005

friendquotepoem #1  my friend takes her morning walk on lake services road she carries sacks and today picked up beer cans pop cans beer bottles plastic bottles plastic straws   pop cups plastic cups coffee cups coffee mugs newspaper gum paper mcdonald’s paper cigarette packs one left sneaker orange and purple adult size and a […]

aroundtownpoem # 6 a gaggle of girls next door in the schoolyard chants we’re not playing we’re not playing we’re not playing we’re not playing which means of course they are © Jacqueline Jackson 2005

poolpoem # 3 the trouble with the Y pool is it isn’t ringed with spruce hemlocks maples birches no blue sky above or clouds or stars or pelting rain so that the water leaps up to meet every drop it doesn’t have carly in her sleek shell sculling three lengths every morning or the long-necked […]

aroundtownpoem #5 hey here’s an idea to capture more tourist bucks isn’t it generally known the simpsons’ springfield is our own springfield lots of clues why not balance the figures on the old state capitol mall by putting on the other end a modern family group electronically rigged so that visitors walking past will hear […]

lakepoem # 7 doing the final summer laundry the sheets beach towels frayed shorts shirts sweats I grapple with the change machine the woman in charge known as the laundry lady takes the bill strops it against a corner you have to smooth them and pat them and straighten them out she says and that […]

lakepoem # 6 a stiff north wind whips wild waves into a lather under an intense blue sky no easy swim today the eye on the sky morning forecast right after garrison keillor’s daily poem assures us summer will return tomorrow but the incessantly singing red-eyed vireo has given up on the season and an […]

lakepoem # 3haiku quintet my little john-boat skims this pond like a green leaf with barber-striped oars nearby in the swamp a bullfrog’s raspy gargle drowns the new york jet mating damsel flies struggling in a spider’s web part when I free them the orb of the sun squats like a squashed tomato on top […]

featherspoem #2 whip-poor-WILL whip-poor-WILL whip-poor-WILL whip-poor-WILL won’t you SHUT your little BILL your midnight SONG has ceased to THRILL won’t you FIND another HILL whip-poor-WILL whip-poor WILL won’t you TAKE a sleeping PILL whip-poor-WILL whip-poor-WILL I have SUREly had my FILL little FRIEND o please be STILL whip-poor-WILL whip-poor-WILL if I could FIND you I […]

featherspoem #1 behind as I swim the dawn chorus calls feebee feebee pee-a-wee pee-a-wee cheerup cheerily cheerup hey sweetie hey sweetie sam peabody peabody peabody all affirming their right to these vermont woods while nearby in addison county whooping crane number three-o-nine snowy plumage jet wing tips red skullcap yellow eyes legbands white and green […]

jamaicanpoem # 4 (an emily dickinson wannabe) I met a landcrab on the road — its hole was not in sight — it waved its saffron claw in front — protection? or in fright? I plain could see around its girth its chitin band of blue — and underneath a patch of red to let […]