Category Archives: Mumbling Jack, album

A Crisping of Leaves (after before Nightfall) (poems from old notebooks, Shaken by Physics)

Posted on Monday, January 6th, 2014 12:26 pm by

A Crisping of Leaves (after Before Nightfall) August. You awake with Death in your throat Laughing; his nicotine yellow beard shedding, Filling, like asbestos, the spaces Between everything. You awake with Death In your throat laughing and you say Fuck … Continue reading →

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The Devil’s Bride (video from Trailside Cafe show)

Posted on Monday, October 28th, 2013 1:56 pm by

The Devil’s Bride Over the next few days, I’ll be posting a couple more videos from a show I did with Catherine MacLellan and Chris Gauthier at Pat and Meghann Deighan’s Trailside Cafe in Mount Stewart, PE, on this past … Continue reading →

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The Place of Skulls (poems from old notebooks, 1998 or ’99)

Posted on Friday, October 18th, 2013 1:17 pm by

Can’t figure out exactly when I wrote this, though I can clearly recall smirking a lot while doing so. I’ve since pilfered at least one image from it to use variations of in other poems. Ghazal for Mary Magdalene is … Continue reading →

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Three poems from Mumbling Jack, the album

Posted on Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 3:02 pm by

https://www.shoplocket.com/products/wJsDo-mumbling-jack-an-album-of-poetry Storm Poem (In the Vaulted Ceilings) There are high windows of stained glass where the Virgin sits, north-lit, numinous, one hand—half-hidden in the white-trimmed cuff of a blue robe—folded atop a scarlet cloak on her lap, the other beneath, … Continue reading →

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Make Mumbling Jack Your Very Own

Posted on Thursday, February 14th, 2013 2:47 pm by

You could make Mumbling Jack your very own on Valentine’s Day. Tissues not included. https://www.shoplocket.com/products/wJsDo-mumbling-jack-an-album-of-poetry

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Mumbling Jack, the album is here

Posted on Friday, February 8th, 2013 9:10 pm by

With a great cover design by the wonderful painter, Marie Fox. Simply click on the shoplocket link below the image to buy. $5.99 CAD. Credit card, or PayPal. https://www.shoplocket.com/products/wJsDo-mumbling-jack-an-album-of-poetry Mumbling Jack is a self-produced album of poetry by John MacKenzie. Bare bones, … Continue reading →

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Mumbling Jack album of poetry available tomorrow, February 8

Posted on Thursday, February 7th, 2013 5:02 pm by

Album info at this link. Links to two tracks from it here and here. Text of one of the poems at the bottom of this post.

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