James Croal Jackson's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, Rust+Moth, Glassworks, and other publications. He grew up in Akron, Ohio, spent a few years in Los Angeles, traveled the country in his Ford Fiesta, and now lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Find more at jimjakk.com.
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► James' Origami micro-chapbook & selected poems are available below. Download the single-page micro-chapbook as a PDF by clicking the title. To read the selected poem below, also click on the title.
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Origami Micro-Chapbook |
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Cover: Night Swimming
by Lauri Burke
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‘Utah Sandstone’ previously published
in Turk’s Head
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Every Origami Micro-chapbookmay be printed, for free, from this website.
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I run from exceptional red.
Distance. Majestic arches. Loop- de-loop of common want. Canyons, or peace of mind. Say Zen. Say Zion. Watch as wind-up forests spiral from sand. Leaves whisper to their coming branches in the vacant hinge of a song. Don't they still reach for you. The lonely hoodoos eroded in failed embrace. Treble clef, or trouble. No beats for the metered dream.
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James Croal Jackson © 2016
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{mooblock=SKYWRITING}
in that gray cloudlessness
between cyan and cornflower, our words became ice, steel wings barreling to the edge of escape
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James Croal Jackson © 2016
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