Still After Everything

Here’s a poem I wrote last year, a good reminder to take things slow and actually enjoy the holiday season.
Still After Everything
After two bags of apples simmering all night
in cinnamon-honey hot springs
and dutch babies baking, flexing like children
pulling themselves from the pool into the barstools
for Christmas breakfast–
I do the dishes
collecting like snowflakes on the deck
railing [...]

A Few Tanka

Here are a few Tanka from my collection, Somewhere, Love.
[4]
winter hike
together we make tracks
snow angels
protect the fossil
of today’s memory
[48]
windshield wipers
glide across a glass dancefloor
erasing snow
the morning sun peeks-a-boo
brushing dust from cornfields
[71]
little sparrow
sitting atop budded tree
which composer
filled your tiny lungs
with such expressive tunes
[78]
after the rain
when vapor drifts skyward
a sun beam
glistens from behind your eyes
a kind embrace, [...]

In honor of ee cummings

I wrote this for my poetry class this fall. Enjoy.
Autumn is
(
nothing more
than adolescence
demanding
to be
)
free, colorful

Press Release: Somewhere, Love: A Tanka Sequence by J.E. Jacobson

I would like formally announce the release of my latest poetry collection, Somewhere, Love.  I’ve been working on this project since February, and I can finally share it with the public.  I set out to write something special for my wife for after our first son was born.  I’ve heard of many cases of women [...]