No Moon
Jackson, Spoon
Poem No Moon I was afraid this would happen the way the night looks with no moon The way the wind whistles off the back porch You want to love me How can I tell you I have a life but I...
...He also played Pozzo in "Waiting for Godot," with the late great Samuel Beckett's blessing...
...His website is www.spoonjackson.com...
...Spoon Jackson Spoon Jackson is a poet/writer who has been in prison since 1977, when he was nineteen...
...Poem No Moon I was afraid this would happen the way the night looks with no moon The way the wind whistles off the back porch You want to love me How can I tell you I have a life but I don't have a life What can I tell you Shall I tell you about the bars that don't speak or the razor wire that longs to sever the throat or the cold winds that bounce off the emptiness Shall I tell you about the trees 200 yards away across the river of electric wire How the trees haunt me like the smell of barbeque the scent of a mountain meadow the sight of crimson painted toes...
...His work has been published in Exquisite Corpse, California Quarterly, and evergreenreview.com...
...He has won three PEN writing awards...
...Across the river, across the fields across the hills there is wine that belongs to no one What can I tell you Shall I tell you about the lovely women I never had Shall I tell you about the moon fading away like a piece of hard round candy I was afraid this would happen the way the night feels with no moon the way the wind whistles off the back porch pushing on the screen door like ten cats, like ten mad men fighting...
...Jackson currently resides at New Folsom Prison in Represa, California...
...The short film documentary "Three Poems by Spoon Jackson" won five short film awards in five different countries...
Vol. 70 • December 2006 • No. 12
