"To the Final Goddess"
a poem
Todd Jackson Poetry
Here I'll post my poetry in some mix of word and video yet to be decided. I'll also discuss poetry from time to time.
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"Patriarcky" 1 & 2 of 5
Sonnet variant / Nonce poem sequence in process
Todd Jackson features at Rivertown Poets - June 20, 2025
The Reading
"Shower-Fresh, Aphrodite"
a poem
"Zeus Couplet"
Ladies get the bubble-bath from off the second shelf.
"Hymn to Noetic Zeus"
Zeus, verb, In whom each thought that’s thought assumes existence, Weightless though weighted and leaving track. That my one quick inward witness, just as quick forgot, Is citizen itself to the Cosmos, Itself, phainomenon. That it is dignified, like the stone, like the thunderbolt.
"Astrale" a little rhyme
Once I’m dead don’t pray to me. I’ll be somewhere elsewhere out this galaxy. My dead so close at close attension, Ought they be? Once I’m weightless I won’t be. I must learn to whispercross a galaxy.
"Hymn to the Stars"
Happy National Poetry Month, assuming that still exists.
"Staycation Las Vegas Dawn, Apollo": a poem
I look East. A lowslung pile of building, mountain, cloud, Snuggled up and down tight along across the whole horizon, the buildings one long ridge of live barnacles basking in cold March Sunrise, the Sun itself now only just hid behind. I await the Sun-itself any moment now, but first I give glance upvalley West. There, sudden, the whole reflected Sun is splash white-gold Booming off an east-face…
"Lost, Half Forgotten Poem From the '80s w Kickin' '80s Beat"
There’s printed word poetry on the page.