Saturday, December 31, 2016

18)JL Jacobs: "On Chimes" and "Bloch Prayer Response"



















 
On Chimes


Leaves scuttle,
scrape,
drift here.
Chimes
tinny whine.

If there are ghosts
caught midplane,
they
collect bits of us.

Webs & hair.
Installation pieces.

Well-
come haunt
turns
seasons, leaves,
& my dog-eared

books.


Bloch Prayer Response
blue / moon time
thunder rumbles distantly
the tides call
all
to their knees

all might
gone
all weapons
aside...
all feeble
and tremble
inside

your call
your attentive
love-ing
make all seem
a bedrock

I answered
with quartz
and more bedded rock--
Apache tears
& crazy lace
and prayed
that the seeming/seaming
might "be".





JL Jacobs is an Oklahoma poet, the author of a handful of books including The Leaves in Her Shoes
and Streets as Elsewhere



1 comment:

  1. Very lovely The second poem's religious response is palpable. Overall, your style resembles Imagism, albeit in an extended form.

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