Jackson Watson
Hooked On Phonics
she taps the sleep spine of the child
who laughs
the river’s water bandoning
its name in the sea:
ventriloquy a dream (of distance)
in which (wherewith) the speaker
is lost in object speech—
hungrier and hungrier
come & see this boy eat
the cedar smell of grief
who laughs
the river’s water bandoning
its name in the sea:
ventriloquy a dream (of distance)
in which (wherewith) the speaker
is lost in object speech—
hungrier and hungrier
come & see this boy eat
the cedar smell of grief
All-American Copyright Law
his soul was and his soul was
“I stole my own body” I stole the language we stole
an interior cadence of stop a place of stone to stop inferior
from the center drew no water but fugue from the rock schistosic
passions hang inadequate to the fly whose corpse passed out
from under this paper “less the longing for paradise
from the center drew no water but fugue from the rock schistosic
passions hang inadequate to the fly whose corpse passed out
from under this paper “less the longing for paradise
“than the nostalgia for being
poetry enlaced long embrace the rimbliss worn elastic o the lacey
concatenation of us thieves in a sun’s long moderate hour ersatz
a “scaffold” on the body of democracy that never got removed
let you be present, pleased and mild do not want to conquer
the idiom is possess it
a “scaffold” on the body of democracy that never got removed
let you be present, pleased and mild do not want to conquer
the idiom is possess it
National Enquiry
“literature is literature that stays news”
—Ezra Poundcake
USE YOUR HOROSCOPE TO BEAT INFLATION
NATION DECLARES WAR ON FEAR MOM
PREGNANT FOR 61 YEARS I WAS
MARRIED TO JACK THE RIPPER KIM
KARDASHIAN PUSHES FOR NO-STRINGS TERROR
OF THE SPACE BEAST MASTURBATION BREAK
AT A TRAIN STATION I WATCHED MY BABIES
BURN TO DEATH
How to Recover
From Life’s Blows
TOP MODEL EATS HERSELF
TO DEATH MOM NAGGED OUR DAD
TO DEATH END THE AGONY
OF ARTHRITIS CHIMP’S HEAD
PUT ON HUMAN BODY
What Men Don’t
Understand About
Women’s Tears
★★★
Some Foods Make
You Hungry After
You Eat Them
INTERVIEW WITH AN ANGEL ANGRY
WIFE WON’T TALK FOR 33 YEARS
BIANCA LEFT MY ASS NASA
TAKES PHOTO OF GHOSTS IN SPACE—
AND IT’S LEAVING KRIS JENNER ‘FRAZZLED’
Jackson Watson is a writer and translator from Georgia. They live in Providence now, where they work as a wildlife rehabilitator and serve as a poetry reader for Tyger Quarterly. Their work is published or forthcoming in mercury firs, Fence, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. @iamthedogiam