A POEM BY JAMES CROAL JACKSON

spring wind

palette of butterflies

                golden hour

                         the shuffled-card memory

                         flipped through photos

                         the month passed

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James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022) and Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021). Recent poems are in Stirring, Vilas Avenue, and *82 Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (jamescroaljackson.com)

This is the first of three poems to be presented here by James.