This is for those
who on summer evenings
when the whole air
is full of shrill
hear
the needle-like
cries
of bats (these little animals, birds)
In the dark
dove-pitched.
Flame
in deep
struggle.
Oracle point.
The deepest channels
once accommodated
large vessels
otherwise, be lacking.
JL Jacobs grew up in Oklahoma underfoot to her great-grandmother who was midwife and root-doctor to a small community at the end of the Trail of Tears (forced removal of Choctaws to Indian Territory 1830-32). She studied art, photography and literature, and graduated from Brown University’s MFA Program. Her work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, New American Writing, New Orleans Review, American Letters & Commentary, Volt, Five Fingers Review. Books include, Varieties of Inflorescence, Leave, 1992, The Leaves in Her Shoes, Lost Roads, 1999, and DreamSongs, Above Ground Press, 2004. Recent work has appeared in Fascicle, Octopus, American Letters & Commentary and Ploughshares. She lives and writes in the Cross Timbers of America – where the eastern woodlands meet the Great Plains.
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