In the ship’s hold
two magpies
my magpies
crated
wallward.
Black and white
passerine birds of the crow family .
Corvidae.
Only non-mammal
to know itself
in a mirror.
Shall conjecture gather numbers? Others?
Can I give you more than this?
A dove only
among birds
to offer its neck
in sacrifice.
This my quarternine offering.
Perhaps aboard the Holy Ghost
on an overland return.
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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