James Croal Jackson / Fall Guys # 2

 

James Croal Jackson

FALL GUYS #2

by JAMES CROAL JACKSON

all this balance nothing to show for it

    seesaw the most patient of virtues –                                    

                         patience

                   get up god damn it

                                     when you fall can you please get the fuck up

              lemons fire from cannons

                        zest on my back

                        & I am always running

                                           can’t say the words right in my head

                              but in the glitch of No Music just levers clicking

                        & motherfuckers shouting woo! in the sorry 

                                                                                               white 

                                                                                                         sky

James Croal Jackson (he/him) is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. He has two chapbooks (Our Past Leaves, Kelsay Books, 2021 and The Frayed Edge of Memory, Writing Knights, 2017) with one forthcoming: Count Seeds With Me (Ethel, 2022). He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, PA.

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