Proximity: the poet Jackson. Get uncomfortably close.
If we had hovercars, we wouldn’t
need asphalt. We could have grass!
Flowers, shrubs, reedy lakes!
The whole city would be
cooler. It would rain more.
We could have fountains
for roundabouts, trees
for traffic lights,
if
First published in PPC COVID Drum 4, Perth Poetry Club, April 2020
On a pale green wall
in electric sunlight
three china ducks
fly up and away
For perspective the leader
has been made small,
the last in line made large
They work their brown wings,
orange feet tucked,
blue faces stretched out
on white-ringed necks
Though they fly all day
and half the night
they stay in our murky sky
First published in Westerly 65(1), July 2020
Jackson’s 2020 poetry publications
The Poetry Archive:
Pause Breathe Listen Act (performance video)
Letters to our Home: Creative Reflections on the Climate Crisis (print book), Follow That Cat Publications:
Pause Breathe Listen Act
These Tiny Threads Remind Me: The Written in the Time of COVID-19 Anthology (e-book and print book), Shire of Nillumbik:
Download
The things I’ve learned
Buy from Booktopia
Buy from Amazon
Democratic Poetic: Poetry Matters Issue 40, Green Tree Publishing:
The Hokusai tree
Creatrix Anthology 3 (print book), WA Poets Publishing:
Dadda
The dust-encrusted crush
Science Write Now 3:
At the University Library
Calculus
That vast sea
The tiny echo
Cordite 96:
This abstraction
Westerly 65(1):
For perspective
Writ Poetry Review 4:
1932
Creatrix 48:
The code
In early Djilba
Creatrix 49:
The mammogram machine
The priority seat
Creatrix 50:
Observed constraints
Shrunken and small
Creatrix 51:
Things (2019)
PPC COVID Drum 4, Perth Poetry Club:
Hovercars
its colours
up
PPC COVID Drum 13, Perth Poetry Club:
scrambled egg
The teeth