Jacqueline Jackson

grandchildpoem #1 rachel’s glazed eyes don’t stray from the screen when grandma bounces in from two-hundred miles away she doesn’t recognize grandma as a fairy godmother © Jacqueline Jackson 2005

sciencepoem #1 I heard him say it, the noted cosmologist: nothing is nothing © Jacqueline Jackson 2005

travelpoem #1 we went all the way to ireland and spent a dublin sunday morning at the unitarian church how crazy can that be the sermon was called cowboys and indians we sang a hymn about rootworms in the afternoon we saw the book of kells and had carrot soup with ginger © Jacqueline Jackson […]

poolpoem #1 my seven a.m. swimming buddy I know only by his paunch and red trunks. his sinewy friends call him Judge. when he doesn’t show up for several days I feel mild concern. I don’t think he’s doing bench presses. © Jacqueline Jackson 2005

kinquote poem #1 when I told my daughter ‘d been asked to do a poem a week for the downstate newspaper she said I’m not telling you how to run your life or anything, mom, but why would you want to take on something new when you’re always trying to get rid of stuff? but […]