Jules Jacob

One for André Breton
February 22, 2021 Jacob Jules

One for André Breton

 

Always for the first time
the startle—
 
from the dashboard
across a bedspread

 

in the bathroom
mirror     a shocker

 

on top of my head reflected.

 

Under a vine-twined
pergola a sunlit filament

 

swayed     a jumper
and a runner—

 

from my hand     an eye-blink
to the table’s edge

 

and over.

Jules Jacob is the author of three collections including Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books, October 2023) and Rappaccini’s Garden (White Stag Publishing, August 2024), an illustrated collection of poisonous plant poems co-authored with Sonja Johanson. Jules’ poems, author interviews, features, and book reviews appear or are forthcoming in Tupelo Quarterly, Plume, Lily Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, Laurel Review, Poetry is Bread and elsewhere. Jules is an Emeritus Master Gardener, recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France and former Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children.