"I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms"
----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"
Kathryn Jacobs
Kathryn Jacobs is a poet and
medievalist at Texas A
& M - C. Her
chapbook, Advice Column,
forthcoming from Finishing Line
Press. Her poetry has been published in a variety of
journals, including The New Formalist,
Measure, Acumen,
Pulse, Slant, Midwest=
Poetry Review,
DeCanto, Candelabrum, Texas Poetry Journal,
Mezzo Cammin, Deronda Review, The Same, Contemporary Rhyme, Quantum
Leap , Ship of Fools, Eclectic Muse,
The
Barefoot Muse, Mobius and Eclectic Literary
Forum, among others. She also publishes
scholarly books
and articles.
Kathryn Jacobs
Grasshoppers are Smarter
Now, grasshoppers are smarter. Ever seen
a mockingbird start
hopping like it chased
a popcorn kernel? Hoppers dodge
about
deliberately: dart forward, double-back . . .
but never at
the monster; come what may,
you'll never see one help the
hunter out.
Whoever wins,
deserves it. Whereas we . . .
we're not even as fast. And yet
it's we
who
lurch in slo-mo, indiscriminately,
like drunken ping-pong balls. And
who but we
skip blindfold among tigers: prance about
until we kick
some monster in the nose?
www.lucidrhythyms.com
© 2008 David Landrum