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Poems
by James Croal Jackson

 

 

Having Won a Two-Day Trip to Hawaii

 

We wait in the endless line on principle–

backpacks full of familiar belonging,

dreaming to get away. This past decade:

a years-long playback on one of those

stereos everyone wanted. A CD requiem

that spun, skipped, shook–

and is now obsolete.

 

 

 

a line, (a short blue one)

 

 

Google You

 

if you could search through

your life you would

 

page upon white page

the deserts of texas

 

memory in a buggy

 

toting high school calculus

sleeping it off

 

the usual

what’s expected

 

 

 

a line, (a short blue one)

 

 

Google Home Quarantine

 

The crickets chirp when you sniff the cat–

that’s our bedtime routine.

Google asks us to set an alarm:

                                                      never.

 

 

 

a line, (a short blue one)

 

 

missing home

 

nights were alive with music

wine crushed coffee bones faded

light to sleep dustballs curled

were swept away

 

 

 

a line, (a short blue one)

 

 

Promise of Morning

 

broken wind through bent window

tonight estimates life long enough

to breathe sunlight

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

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