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A. B. Jackson
Adam
Adam
Adam
Adam lay miraculous,unconscious with drink.
In a dream, he named whiskies
by nose, palate, finish:
brine and limes, a delicate
peat-reek, Weetabix.
Plasticine, emulsion paint,
amyl nitrate. A warm horse.
Kippers, treacle toffee, grassy
with green grape . . .
the work was endless.
Jalapeno peppers, tobacco notes . . .
Adam rose with a rough tongue
and heartbroken.
© 2005, A. B. Jackson
Publisher: The Dark Horse magazine,
from \'Apocrypha\'
Publisher: The Dark Horse magazine,
A. B. Jackson
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1965)
A.B. (Andrew Buchanan) Jackson was born in 1965 in Glasgow and raised in the north-west of England. After secondary school in Fife, he studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, where he shared a flat with fellow student Roddy Lumsden. Together they founded and edited the undergraduate poetry magazine Fox and ran the Edinburgh University Poetry Society between 1986 and 1987.
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Adam
Adam lay miraculous,unconscious with drink.
In a dream, he named whiskies
by nose, palate, finish:
brine and limes, a delicate
peat-reek, Weetabix.
Plasticine, emulsion paint,
amyl nitrate. A warm horse.
Kippers, treacle toffee, grassy
with green grape . . .
the work was endless.
Jalapeno peppers, tobacco notes . . .
Adam rose with a rough tongue
and heartbroken.
Adam
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