flying peacocks with galloping antelope
and drum charging oxen
lifting the throb
at the avalanche pedestal
and in the shadow of the beats
pilgrimaging into india’s samsaras
i can be
a cypress tree
for i am not a clock
but intricate hopscotch
even if this man sits at a blank page
it doesn’t mean words suit this cosmogony
the ulcers come aching
and obliterated amongst this sacred geography
this pilgrim
a consultation with dirt
hounded and neglected
in mutants of memory
rake the leaves inside this house
serial killers were once six years old like me
this is my home jail body
when are you going home out of my sight
this is my home where I carried the ruined city
under my skin
last caps of breathe this burden
a place of resistance
no boundaries
careful with my burden
in the syllabus of marrow
the moon toasts the lucky people
for i am the end of biology
antifragile
poetics guillotined
on the threshing floor citadel
this is a portrait of not us
un duel’d spread in the sunlight of other
for even my pumpkins
vine gold
chapped limbs
of remembrance
your drupes spasm
in tender milk
ooze a prune tree in my manuscript of hindrances
flowering dirt in the bumps of bleed
Brian L. Jacobs PhD, MFA, is Rhizomatic poet who grew up in Southern California and has been an educator for 35 years in both K–12 and college settings. He served as teaching assistant to Allen Ginsberg during his time earning his MFA. Brian is the founder of Tofu Ink Arts Press, where he has published dozens of books, and his own poetry has been published in several publications. He is the author of two books, one of poetry, Homocaust, and an academic text, Rhizomatic Poetics. Brian is a three-time Fulbright Scholar, a National Endowment of Humanities grant recipient, a Fund For Teachers fellow, taught teachers at a university in China for five summers as a SABEH fellow, and earned two Earthwatch grants studying climate change. Brian also participated in a peace pilgrimage walking from Poland to India. Now based in Ann Arbor, Michigan (publishing, writing and teaching college) he seeks to apply his editorial expertise to commissioning scholarly and creative humanities content.