eleanor j jackson
  • Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet,
    performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal
    about town, feminist, freewheeler, and
    friend. One day, she is going to be an
    ideas curator. Which basically
    means, she will tell you
    exactly what she thinks.
    Until then, you’ll have
    to read between
    the lines.

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finally, you are a poem

  • January 10, 2012
  • by Eleanor Jackson
  • · now you are a poem

I meditated on you tonight.
Well,
not on you,
obviously I haven’t done anything on you

in months
years even
but on the idea of you,
which was probably what I was in love with

if we were to be honest with one another
and if at all you could accept the idea
that I, Cerberus to your deceitful love,
hell-hound of your past, present and future

(or just that bitch you dated once)
was capable of love
or even just approaching a lazy version of it.
Love: the idea of a woman as fierce as a lion

or a beach or a bed,
the insatiable existing that is life.
A wet Labrador
beating its tail

on the rug on an autumn afternoon
knocks a tea cup to the floor,
which spills,
staining the Persian reality brown.

All this emerged from the Om
of you.
I might as well have masturbated
with a chain around my neck

for all the relief it gave me.

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