Poems for Jackson Mac Low: Staying
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for Jackson Mac Low,
“tremendous light”, fellow traveller
& that the staying be prolonged of his staying
in the writing, the sounding & rasp & glee
the writing and the staying of the writing
the sounding & the glee of it, the sounding
& staying & glee of all the writing that went into
long permutations & longing in one writing
that he, that particular mind & senses of him
writing, that he be he the writing, then man
prolonged & all that is he, man, in writing
that he be prolonged & staying in the writing
the sounding of it the rasp the glee of it the
mind of it & senses prolonged by it, of him
sounding that sound, the sound that stays
Anne Waldman is the author most recently of Mesopotopia (Penguin 2025) and Archivist Scissors, (Staircase Books, 2025). Her album Astral Omens with Devin Brahja Waldman and Georgia Wartel Collins is out from Earliest Morning, 2025. Waldman is a founder and Artistic Director of the Jack Kerouac School and its Summer Writing Program (June 8–27). The summer 2026 theme is Metabolic Thrum. Outrider, the film of and about Anne Waldman by Alystyre Julian is traveling the world. Website: annewaldman.org