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 a writer and child advocate whose work appears in journals and anthologies including PlumePlume Anthology 8Glass: A Journal of PoetryRust + Moth, West Trestle Review and elsewhere. She’s the author of The Glass Sponge, a semi-finalist in the New Women’s Voices Series (FLP) and a recipient of the Virginia Center for the Creative Art’s fellowship in Auvillar, France. Visit julesjacob.com