Allergy Season During Quarantine, 2020
Each morning, pollen swarms– I am sick of glowing screens, the yellow construction crane, the fucking birds singing as they sit unbound on high- rise branches.
James Croal Jackson
James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023) and Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022). Recent poems are in Ghost City Review, Little Patuxent Review, and Pirene’s Fountain. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (jamescroaljackson.com)