Poetry

Untitled Document jabberwockpoem #1     karl rove karl rovetell me folks what rhymes with rovelove don’t rhyme dove don’t rhymeshove don’t rhyme but it might doloathe is close but it’s askewlibby’s easy rhymes with fibbyscooter well there’s always looterstole the name of agent plame(bore the shame bore the blame)but karl rove karl roveperchance he be […]

Untitled Document newsquirkpoem #1     seems there’s an adult-size naked jesus made of chocolate in the big apple this holy weekwe’re all invited on sunday tolick it and eat it or should we sayhim he is at the roger smith hotelgallery some groups are not finding this palatable the nutrition chart says our sweet messiah […]

Untitled Document aroundthecosmospoem #5     do you know an asteroid willcome so close to earth someforty years from now that there’scollision concern bloggers arerecommending ways to avertthis catastrophe so we won’t allgo the way of the dinosaurs some recommend places for impactone writes “if it comes to it wecan just send up a great shieldof […]

Untitled Document kinquotepoem # 8this being women’s history monthI give you a quote from my eldestat perhaps two and a half for the firsttime studying her own female mysteryshe is naked bent over doublehead between legs what are you doingI ask she replies looking at my bottomwhat does it look like I ask she repliesoh […]

Untitled Document grandchildpoem #5         she began talking the moment sheheard my voice grandma wyatt isusing the s-h word and he’s watching a dvd and it has smoking and drugs and the s-h word and I don’t think he should be watching that dvd withsmoking and drugs and the s-h word my daughter claimed the […]

Untitled Document note: this is the anniversary of the death at fifty-five of my dearest friend who was the first woman dean of a u.s.medical school: she wrote this in aletter to me when she was eighteen. sciencepoem #2          last night cleo our cat gave birth to three kittens in my dresser draweron a […]

Untitled Document aroundtownpoem #17    in this deep snow deep freezethe sparrows cardinals juncosmourning doves many mourningdoves are hunkered down on myporch rail awaiting the birdseedand sunflower seed I spread onthe back porch feeding traylike the homeless lined up at thelibrary lined up at the overflowshelter when we arrive with milkbananas tangerines a tub of […]

Untitled Document ypoolceiling poem #1    it’s not totally boring theflat white y pool ceilingin the middle squats a fat metaldisk and ranged neatly up the sidessmaller disks maybe a sow bellyher navel and enough titties for twelve piglets but I never saw a sow’s navelthat big in fact I’ve never even seena sow’s navel […]

Untitled Document friendquote poem #6 my friend saidshe couldn’t go to the sex toy partybecause shehad to servebrowniesat the synagogue © Jacqueline Jackson 2006 Though parents know that their children will grow up and away from them, will love and be loved by others, it’s a difficult thing to accept. Massachusetts poet Mary Jo Salter […]

Untitled Document Grief can endure a long, long time. A deep loss is very reluctant to let us set it aside, to push it into a corner of memory. Here the Arkansas poet, Andrea Hollander Budy, gives us a look at one family’s adjustment to a death. For Weeks After the Funeral The house felt […]

Untitled Document angerpoem #21,500     for sixty years we milkeda hundred cows a day at firstby hand but in the twenties forthree hundred bucks my grandpahad the high wire come fromtown he then bought six surgemilking machines surge becamea household word just think thedifference if the trillions we’vepoured into this deadly war hadbeen marshalled into […]

Untitled Document friendquote poem #5I pick up illinois times most weeks don’t always read all of it but here and there you know it fits exactly    the bottom of silas’s birdcage and boy that bird makes editorial           comments all over the place ©Jacqueline Jackson 2006 Newborns begin life as […]