Opening Up
All words weird
trees all limbs
living novels
flipped to final
page the spine
of a god you
never could
believe in me
with constant
joking about
our future or
is polyamory
how we end
it gently?
Opening Up by James Croal Jackson | Garden Lavender Poetry Reed Diffuser
James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet working in film production. His latest chapbook is A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023). Recent poems are in ITERANT, Stirring, and The Indianapolis Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Nashville, Tennessee, USA.






